Umberto Eco Quotes About Atheist

Quotes about: Atheist

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

  Umberto Eco

  Atheist, Believe, Men

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.615, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

  Umberto Eco

  Dream, Atheist, Scripture

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.468, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.

  Umberto Eco

  Atheist, Believe, Book

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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