1. "And yet remarkable solutions to seemingly impossible problems often occur in these moments of clarity. It's what gurus call higher consciousness. Biologists call it
altered states. Psychologists call it super-sentience." He paused. "And Christians call it answered prayer… Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows."
2. “Certainly his faith spoke of miracles… bleeding palms, ascensions from the dead, imprints on shrouds… and yet, Martati's rational mind had always justified these accounts as part of the myth. They were simply the result of man's greatest weakness-his _need_ for proof. Miracles were nothing but stories we all clung to because we _wished_ they were true. And yet…”
3. “...coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden inter- connectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.”
4. “Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
5. “... every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
6. “Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.”
7. "Good science fiction has its roots in good science."
8. “”… history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’” He smiled. “By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.””
9. "Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us."
10. “That's the Z-particle....Pure energy-no mass at all, It may well be the smallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy.”
11. “The next time you find yourself with a woman, look in your heart and see if you cannot approach sex as a mystical, spiritual act. Challenge yourself to find that spark of divinity that man can only achieve through union with the sacred feminine.”
12. “There are symbols hideen in places you would never imagined.”
13. ““These books can’t possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time.” / Faulkman’s eyes went wide. “Don’t tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail.””
