Emanuele Severino Quotes
Emanuele Severino was an Italian philosopher and one of the most controversial and original metaphysicians of the late twentieth century. A pupil of Gustavo Bontadini and long-time professor at Brescia and Venice, he developed in his Returning to Parmenides and the magisterial The Essence of Nihilism the radical thesis that becoming, the passage from being to non-being and back, is impossible, and that the conviction that things truly come to be and pass away is the deepest error and the secret nihilism of Western thought. The quotes below are attributed to Emanuele Severino, organized by topic.
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Emanuele Severino on Death
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“The individual Severino, still inhabited by the will to power, can succumb to all the weaknesses to which immortals abandon themselves. But the authentic Severino, who like everyone else has always been open to the truth, and is therefore something infinitely greater than God, cannot be afraid of death .”
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Emanuele Severino on Knowledge
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“From Corriere della Sera , 4 August 1981.”
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“If we already take for granted what madness is, philosophy becomes completely superfluous.”
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“From an interview on Emsf.rai.it , Venice, Correr Museum, Marciana Library, 15 March 1988.”
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“Cornelio Fabro essentially drew on Thomas Aquinas , while someone like Bontadini was first and foremost a Gentilean .”
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Emanuele Severino on Nature
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“Becoming is impossible; what is, eternally is.”
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“All beings are eternal; appearing and disappearing are themselves eternal facts.”
Emanuele Severino on Time
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“From In cammino verso il nulla (Towards Nothingness), in Gianni Vattimo , Filosofia al presente: conversazioni con Francesco Barone, Remo Bodei, Italo Mancini, Vittorio Mathieu, Mario Perniola, Pier Aldo Rovatti, Emanuele Severino, Carlo Sini (Philosophy in the Present: conversations with Francesco Barone , Remo Bodei , Italo Mancini , Vittorio Mathieu , Mario Perniola, Pier Aldo Rovatti, Emanuele Severino, Carlo Sini ”), Garzanti, Milan, 1990, pp. 32-33. ISBN 88-11-65871-3 .”
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“From In cammino verso il nulla (On the Way to Nothingness), in Filosofia al presente (Philosophy in the Present), pp. 37-38.”
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Emanuele Severino on Truth
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“The West is the history of the conviction that things become; that conviction is nihilism.”
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“Faith in non-being is the deepest error of metaphysics.”
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“Parmenides spoke the truth that the West has refused.”
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“It can be said that the only thing denied to the people of the “paradise of technology” is the truth of paradise. A paradise without truth can be a deception. The suspicion that it is so makes it a hell.”
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