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I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot b...more

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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely ...more

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Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

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…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a...more

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Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.

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I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

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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 f...more

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Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

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Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and p...more

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Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns...more

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I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved a...more

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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector o...more