Quotes by Eco, Umberto

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule t >>

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs >>

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Im >>

Quotations about Modern and Modernism

I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have m >>

You are born modern, you do not become so. >>

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a co >>

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.

Eco, Umberto