And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.


Name of the Rose (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995) - ISBN: 9780151002139

Umberto Eco Quotes

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by...

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by...

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by...

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by...