Fausto Cercignani: Being

Fausto Cercignani is Italian scholar, essayist and poet. Explore interesting quotes on being.
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“Perhaps it is true that every human being is a potential monster, but if we disregard potentialities, then humankind can be divided into two main categories: human beings and human beasts.”

Fausto Cercignani

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“They say there is a difference between actual temperature and perceived temperature, but in the “bearable heaviness of being” the actual measure is no doubt the weight we perceive.”

Fausto Cercignani

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“If I lost the privilege of being despised by certain individuals, I would certainly suspect that my actions and words are wrong in some way.”

Fausto Cercignani

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Way

“The thesis that the human being seeks God because of the disorder he perceives in himself does not take into account that the human being seems to prefer disorder.”

Fausto Cercignani

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God