The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace. — 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,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules.… — 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
“If culture did not filter, it would be inane — as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine… — 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
![“Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/669/umberto-eco-313_ascent_terrorism-is-a-biological-consequence-of_2606050.jpg)
