25 Quotes by Ignazio Silone

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Awareness has infinite gradations, like light.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

Egli non parlava con nessuno del proprio amore. Non se ne arrogava il diritto. E d'altronde, parlare d'amore è banale; chi non ne parla? Egli non dava un nome al proprio sentimento. Non riguardando gli altri, a che doveva servire il nome?

Non credere mica che un istante di felicità sia poco. La felicità esiste solo sotto forma di attimi.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.