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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on."
"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
"In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream."
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
"I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms."
"Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized."
"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
"Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble."
"I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then."
"For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is known; hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and sorrows of experience. Man therefore projects his desire into infinity and feels pleasure only when he is able to imagine that this pleasure has no end."
"What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial."
"He turns not back who is bound to a star."
"Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man."
"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects."
"I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test."
"I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family."
"I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise."
"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
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