The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. — 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
This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact… — 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
The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied… — 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
