3 December 2020 Umberto Eco There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
