Faith Quotes by Umberto Eco

15 Faith quotes by Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco approaches faith with his trademark scholarly curiosity, and these 15 excerpts reveal a layered dialogue between doubt and devotion.

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Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

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“Nothing can dispel from my mind the most reassuring thought that this world is the creation of a shadowy god whose shadow…

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can…

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“The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.”

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I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to…

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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is…

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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one…

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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality,…

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The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know…

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“In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of…

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“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a…

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“Beware of faking: people will believe you. People believe those who sell lotions that make lost hair grow back. They sense instinctively…

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Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic…

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

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