“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.”— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972); tr. William Weaver (1974)Share
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”— Italo CalvinoShare
“Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined.”— Italo CalvinoShare
“It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware.”— Italo CalvinoShare
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”— Friedrich NietzscheShare
