Excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many...
Esa desproporción monstruosa entre el enanismo de su complexión y la dimensión
Calcination
And I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write b...
You're innocent, Casaubon. You ran away instead of throwing stones, you got your degree, you didn't shoot anybody. Yet a few years ago I felt you, too, were blackmailing me. Nothing personal, just gen...
Wherever you put it, Foucault’s Pendulum swings from a motionless point while the earth rotates beneath it. Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do is hang the Pendulum from i...
When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and...
Tu sei il diavolo, disse allora Guglielmo.Jorge parve non capire. Se fosse stato veggente direi che avrebbe fissato il suo interlocutore con sguardo attonito. Io? disse.Sì, ti hanno mentito. Il diavol...
Therefore you don’t have a single answer to your questions? Adso, if I did I would teach theology in Paris. In Paris do they always have the true answer? Never, William said, but they are very sure of...
The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art.
The trouble is, I said, I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lomba...
The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind...
That was when I saw the Pendulum.
Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.
Quase inebriado,gozava então da sua presença nas coisas que via,e através delas desejava-a,satisfazendo-me à vista delas.E,no entanto,sentia uma dor,porque ao mesmo tempo sofria por uma ausência,mesmo...
Però ho capito che per indurre un francese a riconoscere una tara della sua genìa basta parlargli male di un altro popolo, come a dire noi polacchi abbiamo questo o quest’altro difetto e, poiché non v...
Os perdedores, assim como os autodidatas, sempre têm conhecimentos mais vastos que os vencedores, e quem quiser vencer deverá saber uma única coisa e não perder tempo sabendo todas, o prazer da erudiç...
Os homens nunca praticam o mal tão completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por convicção religiosa.