The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
The good thing about the studium is the that you learn from your teachers, true, but even more from your fellows, especially those older than you, when they tell you what they have read, and you disco...
The year had begun with the first protests in Milan against the Austrians, where citizens had stopped smoking to damage the revenues of the imperial government (those Milanese comrades, who stood firm...
The thesis neurosis has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowa...
There's a difference between the 'moderate' overwhelm of a great bookshop and the infinite overwhelm of the Internet.
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...
Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking , and celebrating a reunion.()
Unable to control destinies on earth openly because governments would resist, this mystic alliance can act only through secret societies…. These, gradually created as the need for them arises, are div...
Vai via ora, mi disse in fretta, ti ho detto quello che volevi sapere. Di qui il coro degli angeli, di là la gola dell'inferno.
Vallet wrote of something else. Stimulated in some mysterious way by what he was saying, I made that connection myself and, and as I identified the idea with the text I was underlining, I attributed i...
We don’t see them, but, invisible, they act all around us.
We'll have to see, Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. Potio-section... He looked at me, saw my bewilderment. Potio-section, as everybody knows, of course, is the...
We’ve been led astray by rationalist thought, Diotallevi said. I keep telling you.
What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might d...
What is the hidden influence behind the press, behind all the sub-versive movements going on around us? Are there several Powers at work? Or is there one Power, one invisible group directing all the r...
What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
William was deeply humiliated. I tried to comfort him; I told him that for three days he had been looking for a text in Greek and it was natural in the course of his examination for him to discard all...
You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.
You too will seek your fortune, and you must be keen in obtaining it. If here you have learned to dodge a musket ball, there you must learn to elude envy, jealousy, greed, using those same weapons to...
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