Remo Bodei

"Each of us lives other lives in our imagination, fueled by literature and the media. Through them, we attempt to remedy the limitations of our own existence."

"Goodness is beautiful insofar as it is governed by the right measure, by overall balance, by the middle ground established by the exact laws of virtue, which is “harmony.”"

"Death is never trivial: it is solemnity, it is mystery."

"Despite recurring announcements, it is [...] certain that philosophy, like art, is by no means “dead.” On the contrary, it is revived every season because it corresponds to needs for meaning that are continually—and often unconsciously—reformulated. Philosophy seeks answers to these questions, whether silent or explicit, by measuring and exploring the drift, conformation, and faults of those symbolic continents on which our common thinking and feeling rest."

"Every work of art carves out its own unique time and space."

"It can be said that the joy of thinking consists in crossing ever more distant boundaries, in moving away from initial assumptions in such a way that—once the journey is over, looking back—one can measure the extent of the distance traveled."

"Each of us is born without knowledge or will, at a specific time and place, with a body inherited from our parents, and we struggle hard to reach, in forced stages, an understanding of the world into which we have fallen. The risk is that, in the end, everyone forms their own opinions without comparing them."

"We are in a position to know very little, and with our vast ignorance, we all need to seek the truth, which cannot be reduced to mere opinion, especially today when there is a worrying return to illiteracy and a infantilization of the public for which the media, especially television, are responsible, as they tend to simplify every message."

"I don't like the fact that you try to drive a wedge between atheists and agnostics."

"Read the differences because only then can we discuss, otherwise it's just unctuous and ceremonial."