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...

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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.

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.

Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

Stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.