The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto EcoRead
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Interpretation
Religion provides people with hope and justification to navigate life's challenges.
Umberto Eco's quote highlights the psychological necessity that many individuals find in religion, suggesting that faith serves as a important foundation for understanding life's complexities and hardships. Without the framework that religion provides, many may struggle to find meaning, direction, and hope in their existence.
In practice
During a community seminar on mental health, one could use this quote to emphasize the role of faith in coping strategies.
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.
You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.
The lunatic is all idΓ©e fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
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