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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
"Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours."
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing."
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
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