"The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is n…"

"We live for books."

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and…"

"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves …"

"A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but wha…"

"That man is … odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason h…"

"The sign is usually considered as a correlation between a signifier and a signified (or between expression and conten…"

"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under …"

"Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso …"

"The hand of God creates; it does not conceal."