Quotes from Fausto Cercignani

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.