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Manlio Sgalambro Quotes

1924–2014 Italy

Manlio Sgalambro (9 December 1924 – 6 March 2014) was an Italian philosopher, writer, and poet.

Italy
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A righteous man is one who knows this: that he must annul God daily so that the measure of eternal justice may be fulfilled daily.

Dialogo teologico (1993)

The species is nothing; some men are everything.

Trattato dell'età (1999)

If we were to ask ourselves about the usefulness and harm of pessimism in life, there would be only one answer: truth or life.

De mundo pessimo (2004)

That there is nothing worse than the world does not need to be proven.

La conoscenza del peggio (1982)

Theology is not the science of salvation, but of perdition.

Trattato dell'empietà (1987)

Modesty is the vile success of those who annul themselves, but only a little, and in this way stand out.

Del pensare breve (1991)

It bothers me when people speak ill of Sicily, but they speak ill of it because their judgment is not based on fact, it is poorly motivated, it is rather something unrequited, a resentment.

The singer must convince others of his ideas. Unlike the philosopher, however, he can do so without arguments.

The art of philosophizing comes to light thanks to the mimetic behavior of those who practice it.

La conoscenza del peggio (1982)

Only those who preserve values lose them, and only those who can only subvert them actually preserve them.

Dell'indifferenza in materia di società (1994)

The means of mass destruction correspond to the grand return of value in place of being.

Dialogo sul comunismo (1995)

In the spirit, there are still continents to conquer, discoveries and great journeys.

De mundo pessimo (2004)

Pessimistic discourse belongs to the genre of oratory, because it presupposes an audience that can shout and get excited.

La conoscenza del peggio (1982)

One cannot be reactionary because there is nowhere to return to; one cannot be progressive because there is nowhere to go.

La morte del sole (1982)

Politics is the protection of the disabled.

Dell'indifferenza in materia di società (1994)

True life is the life of the mind.

I got everything I wanted out of life, now everything that contradicted me or my way of thinking, for example my family, has disappeared: I have been living alone for years.

I am me and Sicily. I cannot ignore or exclude it, I would be guilty of a poorly constructed abstraction.

If you steal, they arrest you; if you say that God exists, it's just an opinion. That has always amazed me.

Del pensare breve (1991)

It is this unchanging world within a changing society that philosophy, without excessive amazement, must reflect.

La morte del sole (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Manlio Sgalambro (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.