The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. – Bertrand Zobrist.
Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle – like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.
Dante’s poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?
The Pentacle – The ancients envisioned their world in two halves – masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.
I’m a fan of the truth... even if it’s painfully hard to accept.
Vittoria slipped off her robe. ‘You’ve never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?
What’s the matter?″ She immediately started laughin. ″What’s the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!
History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.
In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?” Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. “Surely such a travesty has never occurred.
Gaea. The planet is an organism. All of us are cells with different purposes. And yet we are intertwined. Serving each other. Serving the whole.
Semakin banyak manusia belajar, semakin banyak dia menyadari ketidaktahuannya.
In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction.
Cathedral terminology was like stage directions – totally counterintuitive.
Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be s God!