Aldo Capitini Quotes
1899–1968 Italy
Aldo Capitini (23 December 1899 – 19 October 1968) was an Italian philosopher, poet, political activist, anti-Fascist and educator.
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“Nonviolence is opening to the existence, freedom and development of every being”
The true synthesis is only with the unforeseen.
From a high tower I have looked to the four points of the horizon.
“This spiritual freedom, the opposite of insensitivity or laziness, freedom to suffer and to know error, is the nearness and very redemption of God.”
“Nonviolence does good to those who practice it and receive it: it makes each other better, lifts them up, unites them.”
I wanted to go away, in the midst of something entirely different
To confess to freedom, the highest habit
Beyond the tragic blows and the brooding over violence
Oh special day, unveil your essence which redeems –
From here the sure beginning of infinity
“In my inner self, where is duality, I am heard.”
“Grief like anything else – like a stone – is content only; God gives us the form, that serenity, purity and self-possession with which to surround and live grief.”
I am reborn when I say a * “thou”.
“The open revolution changes also the spirit of man, the relationship between man and man, because it changes the method of struggle. Therefore it brings a total transformation of power economy and nature”.
“Even the death we feel approaching is not absolute but only incidental. At that moment we perform yet another act. The act is the form, the way in which death is faced.”
“Always implicit in religion is thus a confession of finiteness and limitation. We experience this limitation when we weep, our lament arising from our inability to love fully.”
“Thus God is not to be lived in contemplation but in acts, in actual practice. In giving of our best, in the intrinsic value of every act, God descends as person and strengthens us.”
“God involves continuous awareness of finiteness, supreme capacity to feel grief, the renouncing of divine attributes in order to become pure giving, infinite love, redemption and consolation.”
And you mother still close to me
“By now the idea is spreading that revolutions so far are not enough and we must develop a revolution which will remedy their faults and go a step forward. This new revolution is the open revolution”.