Giacomo Leopardi Quotes
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“Theres no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.”
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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again
— Giacomo Leopardi
— Giacomo Leopardi
Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace
— Giacomo Leopardi
“Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
The Infinite
It was always dear to me, this solitary hill,
and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view,
from so much of the ultimate horizon.
But sitting here, and watching here, in thought,
I create interminable spaces,
greater than human silences, and deepest
quiet, where the heart barely fails to terrify.
When I hear the wind, blowing among these leaves,
I go on to compare that infinite silence
with this voice, and I remember the eternal
and the dead seasons, and the living present,
and its sound, so that in this immensity
my thoughts are drowned, and shipwreck seems sweet
to me in this sea.
— Giacomo Leopardi
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
— Giacomo Leopardi
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
— Giacomo Leopardi
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
— Giacomo Leopardi
— Giacomo Leopardi
— Giacomo Leopardi
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
— Giacomo Leopardi
“Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
— Giacomo Leopardi
“The end of pain we take as happiness.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
“The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
— Giacomo Leopardi
“Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield ... it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
— Giacomo Leopardi
— Giacomo Leopardi
“He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
“If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
“Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
“You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.”
— Giacomo Leopardi
If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.
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— Giacomo Leopardi
The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.
— Giacomo Leopardi
— Giacomo Leopardi
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.
— Giacomo Leopardi
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