Templars Quotes:

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

- Umberto Eco

topic: Templars, Sooner Or Later, Lunatic

They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

- Umberto Eco

source: Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Two, Ignorant, Western Culture, Libertine, Succumbing

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

- Umberto Eco

source: Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Inspiration, Common Sense, Liberty, Lunacy, Templars

When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should know that the Turks did not wait for the fire to burn itself out, but rushed upon the Templars among the scorching flames.

- Jean de Joinville

topic: War, Fire, Flames, Templars, Scorching

Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

- Michael Tsarion

topic: Senior, Order, Knights, Garters, Red Cross

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

- Jeremy Irons

source: Source: in.ign.com

topic: Running, Thinking, People, Templars

Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

- Umberto Eco

source: "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

topic: Character, Knights, Secret, Jesuit, Pendulums

And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday; and that Lord died as a consequence, may God absolve him! And you should know that there was at least an acre of land behind the Templars, which was so covered with arrows fired by the Saracens, that none of the ground could be seen.

- Jean de Joinville

topic: Brother, War, Eye, Templars