“A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve”
― The Degrees of Knowledge
― The Degrees of Knowledge
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― Alarms and Discursions
― Alarms and Discursions
“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”
― The Bodies Left Behind
― The Bodies Left Behind
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