Status Updates From Foucault’s Pendulum

"If belief is absolutely necessary, let it be in a religion that doesn’t make you feel guilty. A religion out of joint, fuming, subterranean, without an end. Like a novel, not like a theology."

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (pp. 513-514). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"What has taken place in the real world was predicted in penny dreadfuls.”

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 482). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

The higher truth is aristocratic; Moses encoded it in the Pentateuch. The cabalists understood this.

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 436). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

“That’s up to you two,” Diotallevi said.

“Us two? All three of us are in this. If we don’t come out honorably, we’ll all look silly.”

“Silly to whom?”

“Why, to history. Before the tribunal of Truth.”

“Quid est veritas?” Belbo asked.

“Us,” I said.

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 423). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

“Chapter by chapter, we are reconstructing the history of the world,” Diotallevi said. “We are rewriting the Book. I like it, I really like it.”

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 392). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I assure you that anyone who attempts to study, according to the ordinary and literal sense of their words, what the Hermetic Philosophers write, will soon find himself in the twists of a labyrinth from which he will be unable to escape, having no Ariadne’s thread to lead him out. —Artephius

Eco, Umberto