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“Mysticism is a degenerate form of contact with the divine, whereas initiation is the fruit of long askesis of mind and heart. Mysticism is a democratic, if not demagogic, phenomenon; initiation is aristocratic.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“Manipulating the words of the Book, we attempted to construct a golem.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?” —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge, 1969, iv, p. 123”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“Not that the incredulous person doesn’t believe in anything. It’s just that he doesn’t believe in everything. Or he believes in one thing at a time. He believes a second thing only if it somehow follows from the first thing. He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that’s credulity.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
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