Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità.
Источник: Il Disprezzo (Milano: Bompiani, 1954) p. 77; Angus Davidson (trans.) Contempt (New York: New York Review of Books, 2005) p. 75.
Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità.
Источник: Da Il disprezzo, Bompiani, Milano, 1963, p. 77.
Источник: Contempt
— Posidonius ancient greek philosopher -135 - -51 до н.э.
As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXXVII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
— Herodotus, книга История
Book 7, Ch. 50 (trans. George Rawlinson)
Variant translation: It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
The Histories
— Maimónides, книга The Guide for the Perplexed
Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.11
— George MacDonald Scottish journalist, novelist 1824 - 1905
‘’It Shall Not Be Forgiven’’
Unspoken Sermons, First Series (1867)
Источник: Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
— Haruki Murakami Japanese author, novelist 1949
Источник: After the Quake
— William Hazlitt English writer 1778 - 1830
No. 35
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
— Thomas Brackett Reed U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House 1839 - 1902
Quoted by George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=5eQ5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22One+of+the+greatest+delusions+in+the+world+is+the+hope+that+the+evils+of+the+world+can+be+cured+by+legislation%22&pg=PA342#v=onepage (1952)
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, книга Young Goodman Brown
Источник: "Young Goodman Brown"
Контексте: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
— Alain Badiou French writer and philosopher 1937
Источник: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
— Michael Swanwick, книга Jack Faust
Источник: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 16, “The Wild Hunt” (p. 292)
— Maimónides, книга The Guide for the Perplexed
Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945
Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 185.
— Primo Levi, книга The Periodic Table
Источник: The Periodic Table
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 124-125]
— Maimónides, книга The Guide for the Perplexed
Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
Контексте: The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e. g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
— John E. Hare British philosopher 1949
Источник: “Evolutionary Theory and Theological Ethics” (2012), p. 251
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
— Menander Athenian playwright of New Comedy -342 - -291 до н.э.
Unidentified fragment 651.
