Logo
Quote by Italo Calvino
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowl

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

Other quotes by Italo Calvino

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Travel
Author
Italo Calvino
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Princess Diana

Category:
Knowledge

Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months. – Anthony J. DAngelo

Category:
Knowledge

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. – Thomas Aquinas

Category:
Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. – Baltasar Gracian

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

There are only three events in a mans life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. – Jean de la Bruyere

Category:
Death

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. – Jodie Foster

Category:
Business

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. – Sharon Stone

Category:
War

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. – Marianne Williamson

Category:
Peace