«A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country».
Un politico è un tale che darà la tua vita per il suo Paese
(Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan)
Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Concessions
«Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession».
(Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart)
(Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart)
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Ingenuity, not bravery
L’ingenuità, non il coraggio, è forse la più grande virtù degli eroi.
Ingenuity, not bravery, is perhaps the greatest virtue of heroes.
(Dr. Divago)
Ingenuity, not bravery, is perhaps the greatest virtue of heroes.
(Dr. Divago)
Thursday, March 1, 2012
A world of ignoramuses
«Doesn't it scare you, a world of ignoramuses with no memory other than that of their computers?»
Non vi fa paura un mondo di analfabeti senza memoria che non sia quella dei loro computer?
(Harold Bloom)
Non vi fa paura un mondo di analfabeti senza memoria che non sia quella dei loro computer?
(Harold Bloom)
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