You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning… — 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
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television. — 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
