Reference > Quotations > The Columbia World of Quotations
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:18407
QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:Umberto Eco (b. 1932), Italian semiologist, novelist. Brother William, in “Seventh Day: Night (2),” The Name of the Rose (1980, trans. 1983).
 
 
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Click here to download the Dictionary and Thesaurus.
 
Search Amazon:  
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2004 Bartleby.com