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Quotes by Italian Authors
"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"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."
"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."
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
"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."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image."
"So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift."
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
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