Frases de Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi
Fecha de nacimiento: 29. Junio 1798
Fecha de muerte: 14. Junio 1837
Otros nombres: Giacomo Graf Leopardi
El conde Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi fue un poeta, filósofo, filólogo y erudito italiano del Romanticismo.
Frases Giacomo Leopardi
„Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
Fuente: Zibaldone di pensieri
„My philosophy isn’t only not conducive to misanthropy, as it might appear to a superficial reader, and as many have accused me. It essentially rules out misanthropy, it tends toward healing, to dissolving discontent and hatred. Not knee-jerk hatred but the deep-dyed hatred that unreflective people who would deny being misanthropes so cordially bear (habitually or on select occasions) toward their own kind in response to hurts they receive—as we all do, justly or not—from others. My philosophy holds nature guilty of everything, it acquits mankind completely and directs our hate, or at least our lamentations, to its matrix, to the true origin of the afflictions living creatures suffer, etc.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
2nd January, 1829. Translation by W. S. Di Piero.
Zibaldone (1898)
„ICELANDER: So say all the philosophers. But since that which is destroyed suffers, and that which is born from its destruction also suffers in due course, and finally is in its turn destroyed, would you enlighten me on one point, about which hitherto no philosopher has satisfied me? For whose pleasure and service is this wretched life of the world maintained, by the suffering and death of all the beings which compose it?“
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
„Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.
29th September 1823, Festival of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Zibaldone (1898)
„Two truths that most men will never believe: one that we know nothing, the other that we are nothing. Add the third, which depends a lot on the second: that there is nothing to hope for after death.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, libro Zibaldone
1832. Passions. Translation by Tim Parks. [Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780300186338], p. 8
Zibaldone (1898)