The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny h...
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
الفاشلون - شأنهم شأن العصاميّين - يملكون معارفَ أكثر من المُتفوّقين ، إذا كنتَ تريد أن تتفوَّق فعليك أن تعرف شيئًا بعينه ، دون إضاعة الوقت في معرفة كل شيء ؛ متعة المعرفة مخصّصة للفاشلين ، كلّما أكثرتَ...
Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened.Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
But chance has a taste for conspiracy.
Kada policijos informatorius tampa išties patikimas? Kai atskleidžia sąmokslą. Tad reikia surengti sąmokslą, apie kurį galėtų pranešti.
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imagi...
Când intră în joc stăpânirea lucrurilor pământeşti, e foarte greu ca oamenii să gândească aşa cum cere dreptatea.
التلميح الناجع هو ذلك الذي يذكر أشياء في حدّ ذاتها عديمة القيمة ، وَ مع ذلك هي غير قابلة للتكذيب لأنّها حقيقيّة
To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.
He raised the leather curtain and showed us into the next room. Little study is not how I would have described it; it was spacious, with walls of exquisite antique shelving crammed with handsomely bou...
The Massalians are not dualists but monarchians, and they have dealings with the infernal powers, and in fact some texts call them Borborites, from borboros, filth, because of the unspeakable things t...
Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.
In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The A...
Agora selo o que não devia ser dito,no túmulo em que me torno.
In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either...
…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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