Umberto Eco Quotes About Passion

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  • That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

    Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • "You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."

    "The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.
  • You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

    Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

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  • I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

    Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

    Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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