"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

15 September 2010

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. 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

Eco's masterpiece, Beauty, is out in paperback next week.

Read a review here.

In the meantime, explore Eco's "polyophony of ideas" in this treat.

Thanks, Johanna.

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