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.
Tags: profound thought-provoking ponder-this
the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.
Umberto EcoTags: science
The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.
Umberto EcoTags: mob the-simple using-the-mob
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing.
Umberto EcoTags: history new-orleans
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto EcoThe beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
Umberto EcoBut if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.
Umberto EcoCulture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.
Umberto EcoAbsence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto EcoOmnia mundi creatura
quasi liber et pictura nobis est
in speculum.
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