“The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.” — 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
I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Nothing can dispel from my mind the most reassuring thought that this world is the creation of a shadowy god whose shadow… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality,… — 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
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
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Beware of faking: people will believe you. People believe those who sell lotions that make lost hair grow back. They sense instinctively… — 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
