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Top 15 Roberto Calasso Quotes (2026 Update)

Roberto Calasso Quote: “The gods are fugitive guests of literature.”

1. “The gods are fugitive guests of literature.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Zeus is never ridiculous. Because his dignity is of no concern to him.”

2. “Zeus is never ridiculous. Because his dignity is of no concern to him.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “All of this follows from a time in history when procedures have taken command over rituals. A moment that is elusive, hard to establish, since the two powers also have features in common. First of all, they are both formalized actions. But they aim in opposite directions. Ritual aims toward perfect awareness, which for Catholics is the moment of transubstantiation. Procedures, on the other hand, point toward total automatism. The more procedures multiply, the more the realm of automata expands.”

3. “All of this follows from a time in history when procedures have taken command over rituals. A moment that is elusive, hard to establish, since the two powers also have features in common. First of all, they are both formalized actions. But they aim in opposite directions. Ritual aims toward perfect awareness, which for Catholics is the moment of transubstantiation. Procedures, on the other hand, point toward total automatism. The more procedures multiply, the more the realm of automata expands.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.”

4. “Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.”

5. “Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.”

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Roberto Calasso Quote: “We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.”

6. “We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.”

7. “Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned.”

8. “Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Le figure del mito vivono molte vite e molte morti, a differenza dei personaggi del romanzo, vincolati ogni volta a un solo gesto.”

9. “Le figure del mito vivono molte vite e molte morti, a differenza dei personaggi del romanzo, vincolati ogni volta a un solo gesto.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “The biggest danger in life is that the food of humans is all made of souls.”

10. “The biggest danger in life is that the food of humans is all made of souls.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.”

11. “The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.”

12. “Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Mythical figures live many lives, die many deaths, and in this they differ from the characters we find in novels, who can never go beyond the single gesture. But in each of these lives and deaths all the others are present, and we can hear their echo. Only when we become aware of a sudden consistency between incompatibles can we say we have crossed the threshold of myth.”

13. “Mythical figures live many lives, die many deaths, and in this they differ from the characters we find in novels, who can never go beyond the single gesture. But in each of these lives and deaths all the others are present, and we can hear their echo. Only when we become aware of a sudden consistency between incompatibles can we say we have crossed the threshold of myth.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Sacrifice requires perfect awareness of destruction: if this clear-sighted attention is missing, there is no sacrifice. For technology it’s enough to justify with claims about its practical utility.”

14. “Sacrifice requires perfect awareness of destruction: if this clear-sighted attention is missing, there is no sacrifice. For technology it’s enough to justify with claims about its practical utility.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course.”

15. “Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “The wild animal loves pure men because those men, at one time, were themselves prey.”

16. “The wild animal loves pure men because those men, at one time, were themselves prey.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.”

17. “Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.”

— Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso Quote: “Some would sing as they killed the bear, so that the bear, while dying, could say: “I like that song.”

18. “Some would sing as they killed the bear, so that the bear, while dying, could say: “I like that song.”

— Roberto Calasso

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