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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration."
"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."
"There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive. They are announcements or presages that concern me and the world at once: for my part, not only the external events of my existence but also what happens inside, in the depths of me; and for the world, not some particular event but the general way of being of all things."
"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
"We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century."
"He wants only to rest and to have a little peace."
"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."
"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
"Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?"
"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."
"From mirror to mirror - this is what I happen to dream of - the totality of things, the whole, the entire universe, divine wisdom could concentrate their luminous rays into a single mirror. Or perhaps the knowledge of everything is buried in the soul, and a system of mirrors that would multiply my image would then reveal to me the soul of the universe, which is hidden in mine."
"For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent."
"I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family."
"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
"Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture."
"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart."
"It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ..."
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."
"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
"Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered."
"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."
"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"
"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."
"Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it."
"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
"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."
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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