"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
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Source: Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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