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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."
"It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest."
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
"How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!"
"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider."
"Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models."
"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
"The history of mankind is the history of ideas."
"I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready."
"A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, 'How could I have lived without reading it!' and also, 'What a pity I did not read it in my youth!' Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading."
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
"Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle."
"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."
"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
"I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more."
"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."
"It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
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