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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
"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."
"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."
"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."
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does."
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
"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."
"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
"In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs."
"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
"You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this."
"I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between."
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