My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Signora, there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. — Umberto Eco Copy Share
