The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 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
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 Image
“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 Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
