The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned...
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
Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.
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...
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
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 knew the earth was rotating, and I with it, and Saint-Martin-des-Champs and all Paris with me, and that together we were rotating beneath the Pendulum, whose own plane never changed direction, becau...
I felt like poisoning a monk.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Graecum est, non legitur, I finished his sentence, humiliated. It is Greek to me. Exactly;
Evet beyefendi, ben maymundan geliyorum. Ama siz ona doğru ilerliyorsunuz!
Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one—had you had the Opportunity? I
Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.
But then, apart from politicians and the pope, why does anyone else use Twitter? Perhaps to feel important.
Beyler, dedi, gidip şu kulübeyi ölçmenizi rica ediyorum. Tezgahın uzunluğunun 149 santimetre olduğunu göreceksiniz, yani Dünya ile Güneş arasındaki uzaklığın yüz milyarda biri. Kulübenin arka tarafını...
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...
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the m...
Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.
إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأنّها تكلِّف ثروة ولا يقدر عليها إلا القليلون. وَ ثانيًا ، سيكتشف الناس بعد قليل أنّه ليس من الضروري حقًّا الاتصال بكلّ الناس وَ في كلّ وقت ، و سيف...