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.
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely...
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its...
There was no plot... and I discovered it by mistake.
Then why do you want to know?Because 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.
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...
The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: Who is in his place? —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge,
Oh, what a harmony of abandonment and impulse, of unnatural and yet graceful postures, in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter, marked quantity infuse...
Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
Lampedusa, Bassani y Cassola. Por mi parte, hoy
It seems that fictional worlds are parasitic on the real world.
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...
Für jedes komplexe Problem gibt es eine einfache Lösung, und die ist die falsche.
But sometimes Belbo, when he became really angry, lost his composure. Since loss of composure was the one thing he could not tolerate in others, his own was wholly internal—and regional. He would purs...
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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...
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسها المرء بقلبه , أترك قلبك يتكلم ,إسأل الوجوه و لا تستمع إلى الألسن