"The Name of the Rose"

[fiefoe]

Brother William, of course, is the most amiable to our modern sensibilities.

• "Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan."
• "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me.
• William was grumbling, irritated because so far the most satisfactory lenses was an emerald color, and, as he said, he did not want parchments to seem meadows to him.
• "When you burn a man you burn his individual substance and reduce to pure nothing that which was a concrete act of existing, hence in itself good, at least in the eyes of God, who kept him in existence."
• "I have always been fascinated by the hope that inspired (Roger Bacon)'s learning."
• this new and humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic
• "Yet I cannot speak of (universal laws), because the very concept that universal laws and an established order exist would imply that God is their prisoner, whereas God is something absolutely free."..
  "And so.. you act, and you know why you act, but you don't know why you know that you know what you do?"
• My master's method of reasoning.. (was) quite alien to that of the philosopher, who reasons by first principles, so that his intellect almost assumes the ways of the divine intellect.
• "Often," he answered. "But instead of conceiving only one (error,) I imagine many, so I become the slave of none."
• "The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly.
• William: "At that point the power of the prince ends, because no one on this earth can e forced through torture to follow the precepts of the Gospel: otherwise what would become of that free will on the exercising on which each of will be judged in the next world?"
• "What terrified you most in purity?" I asked. "Haste," William answered.
• "That inflated wineskin!"

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