Umberto Eco, The Name Of The Rose Quotes
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
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.
El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.
Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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...
The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
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.