“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
― Travels in Hyperreality
― Travels in Hyperreality
“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“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.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
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