Umberto Eco Quotes About Attitude

Quotes about: Attitude

• The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Attitude, Past

  Umberto Eco (1984). “Postscript to The name of the rose”, Harcourt

• 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

  Attitude, Origin Of Life, Fundamentals

• That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

  Umberto Eco

  Meaningful, Attitude, Real

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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