... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. - Umberto Eco

The basic principle [of hermetic drift semiotics] is not only that the similar can be known through the similar but also that from similarity to similarity everything can be connected with everything else, so that everything can be in turn either the expression or the content of any other thing.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum

(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)