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„Gleiche Zaubermacht übt Schönheit wie Musik, die uns so oft von unbekannten Paradiesen hehres Geheimnis zu enthüllen scheint.“

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Aspasia

„Die Aufrichtigkeit kann dann von Nutzen sein, wenn man sie als Kunstgriff verwendet, oder wenn sie einem, dank ihrer Seltenheit, nicht geglaubt wird.“

Giacomo Leopardi

aus Pensieri LVI (Original ital.: "La schiettezza allora può giovare, quando è usata ad arte, o quando, per la sua rarità, non l'è data fede." Quelle: Giacomo Leopardi, Pensieri http://www.classicitaliani.it/leopardi/prosa/Leopardi_Pensieri_01.htm

„Die Tätigkeit des faulsten Menschen ist intensiver als die des tätigsten Tieres.“

Giacomo Leopardi

Gedanken aus dem Zibaldone

„Die Unentschlossenheit ist schlimmer als die Verzweiflung.“

Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

aus Gedanken (Zibaldone), Übersetzung: Nino Barbieri' (Original ital.: "L'irresoluzione è peggio della disperazione." Quelle: Liberliber, Giacomo Leopardi, Pensieri (Zibaldone) http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/l/leopardi/pensieri_di_varia_filosofia_e_di_bella_letteratura/pdf/pensie_p.pdf

„Wer steigen will, wenn auch durch wahre Verdienste, der lasse die Bescheidenheit fahren. Auch darin gleicht die Welt den Weibern: mit Scham und Zurückhaltung erreicht man nichts bei ihr.“

Giacomo Leopardi

aus Pensieri XXIV.
(Original ital.: " Chi vuole innalzarsi, quantunque per virtù vera, dia bando alla modestia. Ancora in questa parte il mondo è simile alle donne: con verecondia e con riserbo da lui non si ottiene nulla."

„Verzweiflung ist unendlich viel lustvoller als Langeweile.“

Giacomo Leopardi

Gedanken aus dem Zibaldone

„Wenn einer die Illusion bekämpft, so ist das das sicherste Zeichen seines unvollkommenden und unzureichenden Wissen - eben ein Zeichen dafür, dass er einer Illusion zum Opfer gefallen ist.“

Giacomo Leopardi

Gedanken aus dem Zibaldone

„Öffne ein Fenster, laß mich das Licht sehen." alternativ: "[…] laß mich mehr Licht sehen.“

Giacomo Leopardi

Letzte Worte, 14. Juni 1837
Original ital.: "Apri quella finestra, fammi vedere la luce. alternativ: "[…] più luce."
Letzte Worte

„Kinder finden alles in nichts, Menschen finden nichts in allem.“

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„Das Alter ist der Übel höchstes; denn es beraubt den Menschen aller Genüsse, läßt ihm aber das Verlangen danach, und bringt alle Leiden mit sich.“

Giacomo Leopardi

aus Pensieri VI. (Original ital.: "La vecchiezza è male sommo: perché priva l'uomo di tutti i piaceri, lasciandogliene gli appetiti; e porta seco tutti i dolori." Quelle: Giacomo Leopardi, Pensieri http://www.classicitaliani.it/leopardi/prosa/Leopardi_Pensieri_01.htm

„Der Betrug ist sozusagen die Seele des gesellschaftlichen Lebens und eine Kunst, ohne die in Wahrheit keine Kunst und kein Talent wenn man nur ihre Wirkung auf die Menschen im Auge hat, vollkommen ist.“

Giacomo Leopardi

aus Pensieri XXIX. (Original ital.: L'impostura è anima, per dir così, della vita sociale, ed arte senza cui veramente nessun'arte e nessuna facoltà, considerandola in quanto agli effetti suoi negli animi umani, è perfetta." Quelle: Giacomo Leopardi, Pensieri http://www.classicitaliani.it/leopardi/prosa/Leopardi_Pensieri_02.htm

„Die Menschen hassen nie so sehr den, der Böses tut, noch das Böse selbst, wie den, der es beim Namen nennt.“

Giacomo Leopardi

Zitiert in Frankfurter Hefte, Band 34 (1979) S. 53 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=NRIoAQAAIAAJ&q=hassen "Colpa non perdonata dal genere umano, il quale non odia mai tanto chi fa male, né il male stesso, quanto chi lo nomina." - :it:s:Pensieri (Leopardi)/I

Giacomo Leopardi: Zitate auf Englisch

“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

Quelle: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827

“Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.
29th September 1823, Festival of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Zibaldone (1898)

“Everything is evil. I mean, everything that is, is wicked; every existing thing is an evil; everything exists for a wicked end. Existence is a wickedness and is ordained for wickedness. Evil is the end, the final purpose, of the universe…The only good is nonbeing; the only really good thing is the thing that is not, things that are not things; all things are bad.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

19th April 1826.
Zibaldone (1898)

“It seems as though death were the essential aim of all things. That which has no existence cannot die; yet all that exists has proceeded from nothing. The final cause of existence is not happiness, for nothing is happy. It is true, living creatures seek this end in all their works, but none obtain it; and during all their life, ever deceiving, tormenting, and exerting themselves, they suffer indeed for no other purpose than to die.”

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Essays and Dialogues (1882), The Song of the Wild Cock

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

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“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”

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Giacomo Leopardi

“What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.”

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Giacomo Leopardi

“Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again”

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Giacomo Leopardi Canti

Quelle: Canti

“To that creature, being born,
Its birthday is a day to mourn.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia

Stato che sia, dentro covile o cuna,
È funesto a chi nasce il dì natale.
Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia (Night song of a nomadic shepherd in Asia) (1829-1830). Translation by Eamon Grennan, Leopardi: Selected Poems [Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-01644-5], p. 62
Poetry

“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.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

1832. Passions. Translation by Tim Parks. [Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780300186338], p. 8
Zibaldone (1898)

“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.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

2nd January, 1829. Translation by W. S. Di Piero.
Zibaldone (1898)

“No one can truthfully boast or say in anger: I cannot be unhappier than I am.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

13-14th August 1821.
Zibaldone (1898)

“Whilst they discussed these and similar questions, two lions are said to have suddenly appeared. The beasts were so enfeebled and emaciated with hunger that they were scarcely able to devour the Icelander. They accomplished the feat however, and thus gained sufficient strength to live to the end of the day.”

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Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander

“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?”

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Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander

“ICELANDER: Thus I reply to you. I am well aware you did not make the world for the service of men. It were easier to believe that you made it expressly as a place of torment for them. But tell me: why am I here at all? Did I ask to come into the world? Or am I here unnaturally, contrary to your will? If however, you yourself have placed me here, without giving me the power of acceptance or refusal of this gift of life, ought you not as far as possible to try and make me happy, or at least preserve me from the evils and dangers, which render my sojourn a painful one? And what I say of myself, I say of the whole human race, and of every living creature.”

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Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander

“NATURE: So flees the squirrel from the rattlesnake, and runs in its haste deliberately into the mouth of its tormentor. I am that from which thou fleest.”

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Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander

“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”

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Giacomo Leopardi

Thoughts. Translation by J.G. Nichols [Hesperus Press, 2002, ISBN 9781843910121], p. 6
Aphorisms

“[T]he recognition of the irredeemable vanity and falsity of all beauty and all greatness is itself a kind of beauty and greatness that fills the soul when it is conveyed by a work of genius. And the spectacle of nothingness is itself a thing in these works, and seems to enlarge the reader’s soul, to raise it up and to make it take satisfaction in itself and its despair.”

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Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

260, 5th October 1820. Translation by Michael Caesar and Franco D'Intino et al. [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, ISBN 9780141194400], p. 177
Zibaldone (1898)