"Idiot. Above her head was the only stable……" — Umberto Eco
"Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?"
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Umberto Eco
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
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