The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between Go...
Our life is full of empty space.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
Translation is the art of failure.
[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that t...
How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and dev...
The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.
Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has m...
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secul...
كلُّ شيءٍ له دائمًا علاقة بكلِّ شيءٍ إذا عرف المرءُ كيف يقرأ فنجانَ القهوة
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and t...
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.