"Unlike joy, which is a momentary experience, localized in specific times and reasons, happiness perhaps has a more general meaning. Aristotle warned that a life can only be judged happy after it has been fulfilled. I would also use another formula, which I like very much and which says: happy is that life which realizes in maturity (or old age) the dream of youth."

"(About Greek philosophy and Christianity) In these philosophies or worldviews, there is an idea of perfection that has caused damage and misunderstanding. And all this arose from the claim to entrust writing with the pivotal role on which the West based its knowledge."

"Ultimately, the last word is never ours. Peirce said: the meaning of my life is entrusted to others. [...] Which proves that truth is never something definitive; we are always mistaken. On a journey. It is no coincidence that I speak of the “transit of truth.”"

"The introduction of writing changes our perception of the world. The Logos, of which the Greeks speak, could not exist without writing. Interviewer: Why? Carlo Sini: For the simple reason that all writing has a medium that is outside the body of the speaker. Writing—unlike speech—presents us with objective knowledge that must be interpreted. When it is the voice that transmits knowledge, there is no separation or distance between what we say and the world that receives it and of which we are a part. In writing, on the other hand, we can recognize that objective root that will develop with science. It is a continuity. Without alphabetic and mathematical writing—which are forms of writing for everyone—we would not have had the universal and therefore science. The universal—which the Greeks called Logos—has determined the course of Western knowledge."

"Either we are part of that reality or it is illusory to think we know it. Interviewer: Yet, if I could not distinguish myself from external reality, in the same way, I could not know it. Carlo Sini: Fair objection. In the sense that we are part of reality while distinguishing ourselves from it. We are part of the truth, but we are not the truth. Interviewer: A nice paradox. So what are we? Carlo Sini: We are in the difference of knowledge, or rather we are in what I call “being in error.” Truth and error are, in a way, two sides of the same coin."

"I have come to believe that the West embarked on the path of logic, and therefore of philosophy and science, because it had a linear writing system, that is, a highly idealized alphabetic writing system."