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But Paris, all in all, isn't what it used o be, ever since that pencil sharpener, the Eiffel Tower, has been sticking up in the distance, visible from every angle.
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Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [...] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities.
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on-ugliness
greek-mythology
evil
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709aa5b
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Nebulat ergo cogito.
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fog
being
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d6437bb
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Dunyada dort cesit insan vardir: aliklar, budalalar, aptallar, deliler ... Alik konusmaz bile, agzindan salyalar akar, spastiktir. Dondurmasini alnina yapistirir, esgudumu yetersiz oldugundan. Doner kapiya ters yonden girer. ... Budala her zaman bardagin disindan konusur...Bardagin icindekinden soz etmek ister, ama ne yapar ne eder, disindan konusur. Dilerseniz soyle diyebiliriz: budala pot kiran biridir; karisinin kisa bir sure once birakt..
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fc349bb
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The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
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people-of-god
outcasts
umberto-eco
church
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not t..
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libraries
library
books
dialogues-between-books
parchment
speaking
dialogue
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cfa1446
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In order for there to be a mirror of the world, it is necessary that the world have a form
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366e216
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Simple mechanisms do not love.
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umberto-eco
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A thesis should take no more than three years because, if the student has failed to delimit his topic and find the necessary sources after this period, he has one of the following problems: 1. The student has chosen an overwhelming topic that is beyond his skill level. 2. The student is one of those insatiable persons who would like to write about everything, and who will continue to work on his thesis for 20 years. (A clever scholar will i..
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But if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.
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If a student works rigorously, no topic is truly foolish, and the student can draw useful conclusions even from a remote or peripheral topic.
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When nature fails, we turn to art.
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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Umberto Eco |
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three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.
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perfection
integrity
proportion
components-of-beauty
consonance
light-and-colour
clarity
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29c3416
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and I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass
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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequentur. grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
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Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it.
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cowardice
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563b2fa
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Hastalandigimda kendimi senin ellerine teslim edeyim; sana bilmediklerim dahil hakkimda her seyi anlatayim ve sen benim ruhumun efendisi ol, ister miydin?
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Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.
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Therefore you don't have a single answer to your questions?" "Adso, if I did I would teach theology in Paris." "In Paris do they always have the true answer?" "Never," William said, "but they are very sure of their errors."
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. This was the beginning with God and the duty of every faithful monk would be to repeat every day with chanting humility the one neverchanging event whose incontrovertible truth can be asserted. But we see now through a glass darkly, and the truth, before it is revealed to all, face to face, we see in fragments (alas, how illegible) in the error of the world, so we..
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I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world than in the Christian. The Christian world makes it the object of meditation, but acts as if it may be projected into a dimension not measured by calendars. The secular world pretends to ignore the end of time, but is fundamentally obsessed by it. This is not a paradox, but a repetition of what transpired in the first thousand years of history..
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time
history
christianity
religion
bible
hope
augustine
church-fathers
end-of-the-time
historicism
marx
catholic
end-of-the-world
hegel
catholicism
scripture
christian
secular
revelation
secularism
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Daha sonra Lia soyle diyecekti bana: "Yuzeyde yasiyorsun sen. Bazen derin gorunuyorsan, bunun nedeni, derinlik,katilik etkisi yaratmak icin yuzeyleri ic ice gecirmen: ayakta duramayacak bir katilik." "Yuzeysel oldugumu mu soyluyorsun?" "Hayir," diye yanitlamisti Lia, "baskalarinin derinlik dedikleri, dort-boyutlu kupten baska birsey degildir. Bir yanindan girer obur yanindan cikarsin; onlarin evreninde, senin evreninle bir arada var olamaya..
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And he continues: "Thus it is increasingly necessary you recognize that other congregations of material bodies exist elsewhere in the universe, like this of our world, which the ether encircles in eager embrace"
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Es inutil, ya no tenemos la sabiduria de los antiguos, !se acabo la epoca de los gigantes! -Somos enanos -admitio Guillermo-, pero enanos subidos a los hombros de aquellos gigantes, y, aunque pequenos, a veces logramos ver mas alla de su horizonte.
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They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
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cf6e830
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Agora selo o que nao devia ser dito,no tumulo em que me torno.
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Die Menschen tun das Bose nie so vollstandig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religioser Uberzeugung tun.
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religion
evil
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But Roberto already knew what the Jesuit's real objection would be. Like that of the abbe on that evening of the duel when Saint-Savin provoked him: If there are infinite worlds, the Redemption can no longer have any meaning, and we are obliged either to imagine infinite Calvaries or to look on our terrestrial flowerbed as a priveleged spot of the Cosmos, on which God permitted His Son to descend and free us from sin, while the other worlds..
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f82aaa6
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Aspirar a algo que no tendras jamas, ?es esta la agudeza del mas generoso entre los deseos?
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deseo
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Umberto Eco |
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a73a0f4
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I was becoming addicted, Diotallevi was becoming corrupted, Belbo was becoming converted. But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
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3abfaee
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tfkWrtu fy mqwl@in nusibat l~ mdyri 'wrkstr , `urif blsnh lldh` , mtHdWithan `n `zf <>
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سخرية
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st`mlw dy'man klm@ <> , l <> 'w <> , `br@ <> 'shn` sbW@ fy bldn
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revilement
إهانة
سب
شتم
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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.
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science
method
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4b1de8e
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Oysa simdi, dunyanin zararsiz bir bilmece oldugunu, ardinda bir gercek varmis gibi onu aciklamaya kalkisma cilginligimizin onu korkunclastirdigina inaniyorum.
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And on the moon there is surely water...And up there, if water exists, and air, then so does life. A life perhaps different from ours. Perhaps that water has the flavor of (let us say) glycyrrhizin, or cardamon, or even of pepper. If there are infinite worlds, this proves the infinite ingenuity of the Engineer of our Universe, but then there is no limit to this Poet. He can have created inhabited worlds everywhere, but inhabited by ever-di..
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An we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness an that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.
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Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.
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Es necesario un enemigo para darle al pueblo una esperanza. Alguien ha dicho que el patriotismo es el ultimo refugio de los canallas: los que no tienen principios morales se suelen envolver en una bandera, y los bastardos se remiten siempre a la pureza de su raza. La identidad nacional es el ultimo recurso para los desheredados. Ahora bien, el sentimiento de la identidad se funda en el odio, en el odio hacia los que no son identicos. Hay qu..
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I hated my mother who had gone without telling me, I hated my father who had done nothing to stop her, I hated God because he had willed such a thing to happen, and I hated my grandfather because he thought it normal for God to will such things.
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604a04a
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El autor deberia morirse despues de haber escrito su obra. Para allanarle el camino al texto.
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Umberto Eco |
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f7c2d40
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Nauka poka eshche nastol'ko malo osvedomlena o protsesse stareniia, chto ia ne iskliuchaiu, chto smert' iavliaetsia prosto-naprosto rezul'tatom nepravil'nogo vospitaniia.
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Umberto Eco |
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I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and 'To conclude'.
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Umberto Eco |
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After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?
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