Dante Alighieri was the greatest of Italian poets, and, many readers think, one of the greatest poets that Western civilization has produced.
He wrote the epic work Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) in dialect Italian. Divina Commedia represented the cosmology and
cosmogony of Dante's day. Dante also wrote De Monarchia, a treatise on political science. He believed that the purpose of government
was to preserve peace and the best form was a world monarchy. According to his concept, universe was a perfect, hierarchal, intelligible cosmos.
(1265-1321)
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
~ Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
~ Dante Alighieri
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
~ Dante Alighieri
It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays.
~ Dante Alighieri
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
~ Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~ Dante Alighieri
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
~ Dante Alighieri
No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
~ Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
~ Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~ Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes.
~ Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
~ Dante Alighieri
Follow your own star!
~ Dante Alighieri
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
~ Dante Alighieri
From a little spark may burst a flame.
~ Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
~ Dante Alighieri
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
~ Dante Alighieri
I love to doubt as well as know.
~ Dante Alighieri
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
~ Dante Alighieri
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
~ Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
~ Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~ Dante Alighieri
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
~ Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
~ Dante Alighieri
Justice does not descend from its pinnacle.
~ Dante Alighieri
Small projects need much more help than great.
~ Dante Alighieri
He is one of the all-time masters of horror and the macabre. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror,
the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien.
He wrote fantasy and horror in the best tradition of Poe, Blackwood, and Machen. His own style gained many admirers and was later imitated by others.
(1890 - 1937)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
