# Quote — Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

> The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

- Author: [Umberto Eco](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco.md)
- Book: [The Name of the Rose](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-name-of-the-rose.md)
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> Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

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> There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

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> Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

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