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Quotes by Italian Authors
"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
"I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story."
"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it."
"You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not."
"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need."
"Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century."
"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."
"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."
"The world is a living image of God."
"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
"It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves."
"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."
"What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss."
"Fine gold is recognized when it is tested."
"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"
"Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections."
"The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect."
"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known."
"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
"Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is."
"It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever."
"The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things."
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
"Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books."
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