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Quotes by Italian Authors
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
"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."
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
"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."
"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place."
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
"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."
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
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