Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book …William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.
Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the haughty into fools, the rich into paupers, the philosophers into dol...
All’università (allora, ma credo ancor oggi) le cose vanno all’opposto del mondo normale, non sono i figli che odiano i padri ma i padri che odiano i figli.
Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I
And in that moment I experience a revelation.I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless, the lazy fruit of a misunderstanding, but in that moment I was able to translate w...
And on the moon there is surely water...And up there, if water exists, and air, then so does life. A life perhaps different from ours. Perhaps that water has the flavor of (let us say) glycyrrhizin, o...
As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
As a little drop of water added to a quantity of wine is completely dispersed and takes on the color and taste of wine, as red-hot iron becomes like molten fire losing its original form, as air when i...
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
C’è una nota storiella che narra come due cani si incontrino a Mosca; l’uno è grasso e ben pasciuto, l’altro magro e affamato. Il cane affamato domanda all’altro: come fai a trovare da mangiare? e l’a...
Es necesario un enemigo para darle al pueblo una esperanza. Alguien ha dicho que el patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas: los que no tienen principios morales se suelen envolver en una ban...
Für die Leute, die einen zum ersten Mal besuchen, eine imposante Bibliothek entdecken und nichts Besseres zu sagen wissen als: Haben Sie das alles gelesen?, kenne ich mehrere Antworten. Einer meiner F...
He contado en varias ocasiones cómo dejé de hacer fotografías en 1960, tras una visita a distintas catedrales francesas que fotografiaba enloquecido. De regreso, me encontré con que tenía una serie de...
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem wa...
I will tell you the deeper significance of this, which otherwise might seem a banal hydraulic joke. Caus knew that if one fills a vessel with water and seals it at the top, the water, even if one then...
If the idea of God is unknown in the state of nature, it must be a human invention. . . . But do not look at me as if I lacked sound principles and were not a faithful servant of my king. A true philo...
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro (T. Kempis)
In order for there to be a mirror of the world, it is necessary that the world have a form
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