Status Updates From Foucault’s Pendulum

Perhaps I was going in circles, crossing some of the rooms for the second time; perhaps I would never get out of this place; perhaps this groping among meaningless machines was the rite.

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (pp. 559-560). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

“But those are psychoanalysts. They say that to make money. They aren’t your rabbis.”

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum (p. 549). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

"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.