I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — 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… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“And on the moon there is surely water...And up there, if water exists, and air, then so does life. A life perhaps… — 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
That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the… — 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
“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Will we be happier afterwards? Or will be have lost the freshness of those who are privileged to experience art as real… — 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
“Sir, be proud: today you came close to a happy death; and behave in the future with the same nonchalance, knowing that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you… — 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
“There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living… — 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
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I stood back up and looked down at my feces. A lovely snail-shell architecture, still steaming. Borromini. My bowels must be in… — 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
“Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We… — 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
"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and… — 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
