Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.