It’s hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the...
I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, butwe don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.
I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
I am gripped by an irresistible urge to kill myself, but I know it's the devil tempting me.
Here, on the one hand, nobody respects silence any more. On the other, it is respected too much. Here, instead of talking or remaining silent, we should act.
And from this springs the extraordinary question: Did the Egyptians know about electricity?
—Querido Adso, no conviene multiplicar las explicaciones y las causas mientras no haya estricta necesidad de hacerlo.
الحقائق الوحيدة الصالحة أدوات ينبغي الإلقاء بها بعد استعمالها.
In a story there is always a reader, and this reader is a fundamental ingredient not only of the process of storytelling but also of the tale itself. Today,
Esa desproporción monstruosa entre el enanismo de su complexión y la dimensión
You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, th...
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.
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
Where have i=I read that at the end, when life, surface upon surface, has become completely encrusted with experience, you know everything, the secret, the power, and the glory, why you were born, why...
Todo se explica utilizando menor número de causas.
The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.
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...
La desesperada soledad de las paralelas que no se encuentran jamás
It’s true, Benno said, smiling for the first time, his face growing almost radiant. We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.