Umberto Eco Quotes

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

Umberto Eco

Quotes to Explore

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson
- Pain
- Gratitude
- Revenge
There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

Ted Deutch
- Serious
- Most
- Iran
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

Magnus Magnusson
- Better
- Walks
- Exercises
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller
- Yourself
- Search
- Others
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Quentin Crisp
- People
- Up
- God
You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

V. S. Naipaul