Fausto Cercignani Quotes

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Every human relationship implies compromises, but the limit to any compromise is one's own dignity.

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If you have no aim, you need not worry about the means.

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Even good arguments fail, if they are spiced with digressions.

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Titles are like clothes: they do not make the man.

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Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

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If the unconscious is an abyss, how could Sigmund Freud get out of it?

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They say there is a difference between actual temperature and perceived temperature, but in the bearable heaviness of being the actual measure is no doubt the weight we perceive.

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Genuine living and mere vegetating have only breathing in common (and a few other things).

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Emulation can be positive, if you succeed in avoiding imitation.

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If you have never had a dream, perhaps you have only dreamt to be alive.

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If sudden, the visit of the Grim Reaper cannot be unwelcome.

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If on the web you search only for frivolous or sensational news (which are often false and slanderous), you will bring grist to the mill of those who maintain that the era of the web is by no means the era of knowledge.

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Some people maintain that what one believes becomes true, but the poor sick person who has hoped in vain would certainly not agree.

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You should only boast about having nothing to boast about!

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An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally.

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Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

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Love the others and you will be loved! is a saying that might sound as a terrible and unjust accusation against all the innocents that have been hated and perhaps even tortured and killed.

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When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

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Stellar wars are a sort of parallel reality in the filmic imagination, terrestrial wars are still today a harsh daily reality.

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Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

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Do not confuse fantasy with imagination: the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

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The best speeches are those that hurt your mind, not your ear.

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Perhaps it is true that every human being is a potential monster, but if we disregard potentialities, then humankind can be divided into two main categories: human beings and human beasts.

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The origin of certain superstitions is often connected to the intention of attributing adverse events to specific causes.

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The present is nothing else than the sum of what one perceives, remembers and hopes for.

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