Dolors’s Reviews > Foucault’s Pendulum > Status Update

In the end, everything is reduced to being conscious of the humankind's need to believe in something.
"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."

Belbo is becoming my favorite character.
"Proust was right: life is represented better by bad music than by a Missa solemnis. Great Art makes fun of us as it comforts us, because it shows us the world as the artists would like the world to be."

"Who do we think we are? We for whom Hamlet is more real than our janitor? Do I have any right to judge - I who keep searching for my own Madame Bovary so we can have a big scene?"

I know I shouldn't but I can't help liking this Diotallevi guy: "Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter."

I like Eco's jesting tone:
"I tried the ten Sefirot: Keter, Hokhmah, Binah, Hesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Nezah, Hod, Yesod, Malkhut. They didn't work, of course: it was the first thing that would have occurred to anyone."