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 cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.
So you truly do not believe in God?I find no reason to, in nature... If the idea of God is unknown in the state of nature, it must then be a human invention.
Si un pastor falla, hay que separarlo de los otros pastores, pero, ¡ay si las ovejas empezaran a desconfiar de los pastores!
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequentur. grasp the word...
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the word...
Poor boy, the libertine then said, he builds machines to count the infinite, and we have terrified him with the eternal silence of too many infinities. Voila, the end of a fine vocation.
Omnia mundi creaturaquasi liber et pictura nobis estin speculum.
Often during our journey I heard William mention the simple, a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but, at the same time, the unlearned. This expression always seemed to m...
Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the p...
It's so beautiful.
It seems to me that more plots have been imagined than really exist.
It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already.
Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So
In other words, to see if through these cultural phenomena a new Middle Ages is to take shape, a time of secular mystics, more inclined to monastic withdrawal than to civic participation. We should se...
If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -...
INTERVIEWERDo you believe in God?ECOWhy does one love a certain person one day and discover the next day that the love is gone? Feelings, alas, disappear without justification, and often without a tra...
I work for a publishing company. We deal with both lunatics and nonlunatics. After a while an editor can pick out the lunatics right away. If somebody brings up the Templars, he’s almost always a luna...