In the United States theres a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. – Umberto Eco
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. – Umberto Eco
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. – Umberto Eco