The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
Umberto Ecothe first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
Umberto EcoIf photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Umberto EcoI lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
Umberto Eco