Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.