The Lost Symbol

The secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret had always been how to die.

— The Lost Symbol

Sorry, but the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means "hidden" or "obscured." In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or "occult," and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything "occult" as evil, and the prejudice survived.

— The Lost Symbol

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

— The Lost Symbol

Don't tell me, bookish bachelor seeking single Noetic Scientist?

— The Lost Symbol

Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare.

— The Lost Symbol

Although many people erroneously interpreted apocalypse as a cataclysmic end of the world, the word literally signified an “unveiling,” predicted by the ancients to be that of great wisdom. The coming age of enlightenment. Even so, Langdon could not imagine such a vast change being ushered in by . . . a word.

— The Lost Symbol

Throughout history, the circumpunct has been all things to all people — it is the sun god Ra, alchemical gold, the all-seeing eye, the singularity point before the Big Bang...

— The Lost Symbol

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

— The Lost Symbol