The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
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...
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...
Mais l idéologie proclamée de Forest Lawn est la même que celle du musée Getty qui est gratuitement ouvert au public. C est l idéologie de la conservation, au Nouveau Monde, des trésors que l imprévoy...
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
If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.
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...
I stood back up and looked down at my feces. A lovely snail-shell architecture, still steaming. Borromini. My bowels must be in good shape, because everyone knows you have nothing to worry about unles...
I hated my mother who had gone without telling me, I hated my father who had done nothing to stop her, I hated God because he had willed such a thing to happen, and I hated my grandfather because he t...
I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the key, mirroring the mystery of the ogive, that supreme static hypocrisy whic...
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
Here he was holding the clear proof of the existence of other skies, but at the same time without having to ascend beyond the celestial spheres, for he intuited many worlds in a piece of coral. Was th...
Gustaba a napolitanos y sicilianos, mestizos también ellos, no por error de una madre pelleja sino por historia de generaciones, nacidos de cruces de levantinos desleales, árabes sudorientos y ostrogo...
For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of Is your novel an open work or not? How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or With which of your characters do you ide...
Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, s...