How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.
Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.
It's hopeless, he went on. We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!We are dwarfs, William admitted, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small t...
But then, apart from politicians and the pope, why does anyone else use Twitter? Perhaps to feel important.
Бібліотеки — то неймовірна штука: часом здається, ніби стоїш на вокзальній платформі і, читаючи з книжкових сторінок про екзотичні місця, подорожуєш далекими країнами.
Все всегда рождаются не под своей звездой, и единственная возможность жить по-человечески – это ежедневно корректировать свой гороскоп.
He was still there when, having seen history now as a place rich in whims and incomprehensible plots for Reasons of State, he learned from Saint-Savin how treacherous was the great machine of the worl...
If our eye could penetrate the earth and see its interior from pole to pole, from where we stand to the antipodes, we would glimpse with horror a mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns. —...
It has been said that narrative worlds are always little worlds, because they do not constitute a maximal and complete state of things. In this sense narrative worlds are parasitical, because, if the...
Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Because one who knows not how to seek will never find. . . .
The library is testimony to truth and to error,
Our cause is a secret within a secret, a secret that only another secret can explain; it is a secret about a secret that is veiled by a secret. —Jafar as-ādiq, sixth Imam
Superstition brings bad luck. —Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8
The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: Who is in his place? —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge,
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
I would like to tell about war and friendship among the various parts of the body, the arms that do battle with the feet, and the veins that make love with the arteries, or the bones with the marrow....
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the lessI value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; andas the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which ca...
All the same, I said, when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches, you did not yet know Brunellus. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses, or at least all horses...
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