Foucault's Pendulum

They remind me of Tom and Jerry.

— Foucault's Pendulum

Whatever the rhythm was, luck rewarded us, because, wanting connections, we found connections — always, everywhere, and between everything. The world exploded in a whirling network of kinships, where everything pointed to everything else, everything explained everything else…

— Foucault's Pendulum

People believe those who sell lotions that make lost hair grow back. They sense instinctively that the salesman is putting together truths that don't go together, that he's not being logical, that he's not speaking in good faith. But they've been told that God is mysterious, unfathomable, so to them incoherence is the closest thing to God. The farfetched is the closest thing to a miracle.

— Foucault's Pendulum

The true initiate is he who knows that the most powerful secret is a secret without content, because no enemy will be able to make him confess it, no rival devotee will be able to take it from him.

— Foucault's Pendulum

There are no bigger secrets, because the moment a secret is revealed, it seems little.

— Foucault's Pendulum

The universe is peeled like an onion, and an onion is all peel.

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You spend a life seeking the Opportunity, without realizing that the decisive moment, the moment that justified birth and death, has already passed. It will not return, but it was — full, dazzling, generous as every revelation.

— Foucault's Pendulum