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Quotes by Italian Authors
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
"An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God."
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
"To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time."
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
"Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing."
"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."
"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret."
"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
"The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time."
"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."
"When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules."
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics."
"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."
"At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage."
"You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country."
"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."
"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery, the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."
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