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Francesco Olgiati
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“If we could strip ourselves of our superb pride, if to define our species we cared closely about what history and prehistory present to us as the constant characteristic of man, we would not say "homo sapiens", but "homo faber". Originally we think only to act. Speculation is a luxury, while action is a necessity. And it is in the form of action that our intelligence has been fused; it is not the faculty of fabricating systems of metaphysics, but of preparing artificial instruments. (chap. III, pp. 47-48)”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How painful it is to think of the indifference with which many delicacies of the maternal heart have been accepted in the past!... The mother is too great a good and sometimes distance is necessary, to appreciate her full greatness... (p. 12)”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poor Mothers who live hidden and consumed in the secret of your heart anxieties and pains understood by no one!... (p. 13)”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not only in the novels of Giulio Verne that one descends into the depths of the sea or ascends close to the stars; even in the reality of everyday life, astonishing wonders are fulfilled every day. (p. 29)”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is useless to propose the correction of a defect, if at the time one cannot resist. (p. 72)”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The valor of a soldier is not judged in times of peace or quiet, but in the hour of the assault. (p. 72)ù”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the "Evolution créatrice", when he addresses the problem of life, Bergson will try to show that life, from its origins onwards, is nothing but the continuation of one and the same momentum, which has then split into lines of divergent evolutions. The development of that single impulse so dissociated tendencies that they could not grow beyond a certain point, without becoming incompatible with each other; but which, however, despite the divergence of their effects, retain something common for the identity of their origin. Thus, for example, the initial momentum split into intelligence in man and instinct in animals, so that every concrete instinct is mixed with intelligence and every real intelligence is penetrated by instinct. (chap. IV, p. 63)”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life, from its origins onwards, is the continuation of "one and the same momentum". At a certain moment, in certain points of space, a vital current was born, which in its creative evolution was then divided into divergent lines, dissociating the various tendencies, which slept in it like a fertile germ. Evolutionary movement would be a simple thing, if life described a unique trajectory, similar to that of a full bomb, launched by a cannon. But here we are dealing with a howitzer, which immediately exploded into fragments, which, being themselves species of howitzers, in turn exploded into fragments, destined to explode again and so on for a long and long time. We perceive nothing but what is closest to us, that is, the scattered movements of the pulverized splinters. Starting from these we must go back, from degree to degree, to the original movement, to find the "unique source" of all the kingdoms of nature, of all the countless species, of all the millions of individuals, who were, are and will be. (chap. X, pp. 145-146)”
Francesco Olgiati (1886–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source