"A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Decision Quotes #Action Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Too much information will make your brain choke.”
“A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.”
“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.
“This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.”
“I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.”
“Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.”
“The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.”

Source : "Terry Jones' Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History". Book by Terry Jones, 2007.
“I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.375, U of Nebraska Press

You may also like:

Alberto Moravia
Novelist
Carlo Levi
Painter
Eugenio Montale
Poet
Franz Kafka
Writer
Italo Calvino
Journalist
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Natalia Ginzburg
Author
Primo Levi
Chemist
Salvatore Quasimodo
Author