Men Quotes by Umberto Eco

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

— Umberto Eco

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

— Umberto Eco

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

— Umberto Eco

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

— Umberto Eco

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

— Umberto Eco

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men…

— Umberto Eco

“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in…

— Umberto Eco

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as…

— Umberto Eco

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal…

— Umberto Eco

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to…

— Umberto Eco

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive…

— Umberto Eco

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in…

— Umberto Eco

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent…

— Umberto Eco

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a…

— Umberto Eco

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…

— Umberto Eco