Quotes from Dan Brown

Overnight, Dante's work solidified the abstract concept of hell into clear and terrifying vision - visceral, palpable, and unforgettable. Not surprisingly, following the poem's release, the Catholic Church enjoyed an enormous upstick in attendance from terrified sinners looking to avoid Dante's updated version of the underworld.

The mind is a golden capstone atop the physical body. The Philosopher's Stone. Through the staircase of the spine, energy ascends and descends, circulating, connecting the heavenly mind to the physical body.

Iactura paucorum serva multos.

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 can not prove. 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. - Robert Langdon

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis

Mankind is hovering now in a purgatory of procrastination and indecision and personal greed... but the rings of hell await, just beneath our feet, waiting to consume us all.

I know why I am here.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the world will purge itself.

When I witness the precision of mathematics, the reliability of physics, and the symmetries of the cosmos, I don't feel like I'm observing cold science; I feel as if I'm seeing a living footprint…the shadow of some greater force that is just beyond our grasp.

que me preocupa es que Leonardo Vetra prácticamente demostró la existencia de Dios, y sin embargo usted ha hecho que lo asesinen!

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

spontaneous generation

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther had

without a doubt, that we evolved from apes.

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Now

You know me, Robert, when my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier.

Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion

My body is but a vessel for my most potent treasure … my mind.

What had once been life's quiet moments of solitary reflection--a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment--now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology. The miracles of the past were fading away, whitewashed by a ceaseless hunger for all-that-was-new.

Jesus, God reminded him, had saved them all . . . saved them from their own apathy. With two deeds, Jesus had opened their eyes. Horror and Hope. The crucifixion and the resurrection. He had changed the world. But that was millennia ago. Time had eroded the miracle. People had forgotten. They had turned to false idols-techno-deities and miracles of the mind. What about miracles of the heart!

Jesús soportó el dolor en la cruz durante tres días!»