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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
"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."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"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."
"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."
"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."
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
"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."
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