Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

Hokhmah—wisdom, knowledge, the primordial thought that contains, as in a box, everything, all that will unfold in creation. Hokhmah holds the essence of all that will emanate from it.”

for creation had to be inspired by love of someone who is not ourselves.

“Look, don’t take me too literally. I’m not trying to put the universe in order.

Fools don’t claim that cats bark, but they talk about cats when everyone else is talking about dogs.

“But, really, you can read about the Templars anywhere. . . . ” “We prefer the oral tradition,” Belbo said. “It’s more mystical,” Diotallevi said. “God created the world by speaking, He didn’t send a telegram.”

“From prohibitions you can tell what people normally do,” Belbo said. “It’s a way of drawing a picture of daily life.”

Holy Sepulcher.

You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity.

when originals no longer exist, the last copy is the original.”

King

You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch it long enough.

possessed nuns of Loudon,

Why are pyramids found on both sides of the Atlantic?” “Because it’s easier to build pyramids than spheres. Because the wind produces dunes in the shape of pyramids and not in the shape of the Parthenon.”

you could almost catch a whiff of firedamp.

nature abhors a vacuum.

nature knows nothing of time.

There are beings who no longer have guardian angels:

a naked woman is an armed woman.