But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned… - Umberto Eco

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

Every specific semiotics (as every science) is concerned with general epistemological problems. It has to posit its own theoretical object, according to criteria of pertinence, in order to account for an otherwise disordered field of empirical data; and the researcher must be aware of the underlying philosophical assumptions that influence its choice and its criteria for relevance. Like every science, even a specific semiotics ought to take into account a sort of 'uncertainty principle' (as anthropologists must be aware of the fact that their presence as observers can disturb the normal course of the behavioral phenomena they observe). Notwithstanding, a specific semiotics can aspire to a 'scientific' status. Specific semiotics study phenomena that are reasonably independent of their observations.