Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

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.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.