Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.
You cannot change the world with ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else does and are no trouble to anyone; they're successful, make money, find g...
Sono entrato nella vita sapendo che la legge è di uscirne. Come aveva detto Saint-Savin, si impersona la propria parte, chi più a lungo, chi più in fretta, e si esce di scena. Me ne sono visti molti p...
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in...
Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.
Dissimulation is not fraud. It is an effort not to show things as they are. And it is a difficult effort: when we excel, others must not recognize our excellence. If someone were to become famous for...
William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing...
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?
History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.
You must not worry if they do not yet exist, because that does not mean they will not exist later. And I say to you that God wishes them to be, and certainly they already are in His mind, even if my f...
The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in mov...
Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
To die with style, live in the Baroque.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritto magnifiche poesie, dato interpretazioni del mondo, inventato mitologie etc... Ma allo stesso tempo n...