Primo Levi

“Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a…

— Primo Levi

“The soup-kitchen was behind the cathedral; it remained only to determine which, of the many and beautiful churches of Cracow, was the…

— Primo Levi

“To the Jews who wanted a land of their own, where they could organise themselves and live according to their traditions, Stalin…

— Primo Levi

A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only…

— Primo Levi

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins,…

— Primo Levi

“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide,…

— Primo Levi

“The librarian, whom I had never seen before, presided over the library like a watchdog, one of those poor dogs who are…

— Primo Levi

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery…

— Primo Levi

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the…

— Primo Levi

“It is, therefore, necessary to be suspicious of those who seek to convince us with means other than reason, and of charismatic…

— Primo Levi