They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light.
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...
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t even talk; they sort of slobber and stumble…Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions....
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 simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square.
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...
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
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...
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk t...
Nor did I affirm it openly, in so many words. I did not deny it, true. Who am I to express judgments on the plots of the Evil One, especially, he added, and seemed to want to insist on this reason, in...
Neutral territory, therefore, this abbey where the two groups could meet.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character, agree on a few basic facts, and then each one's free to take it...
La seule chose qu'on écrit pour soi, c'est la liste des courses. Elle sert à vous rappeler ce que vous devez acheter, et une fois vos achats accomplis, vous pouvez la jeter car elle ne sert plus à per...
Kas tai yra meilė? Nieko nėra pasaulyje, nei žmogaus, nei velnio, nei kito dalyko, kuris man atrodytų toks pat įtartinas, kaip meilė, nes ji įsilaužia į sielą giliau nei kas kitas, ir nėra nieko kito,...
Jedes Geschöpf der Welt ist uns gleichsam ein Buch und Gemälde und Spiegel. (Every creature of the world is to us at once a book and painting and mirror.)
It's true, I'd never understood whether this vogue for apologising is a sign of humility or of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it. It rem...
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.