“If the eye could see the demons that people the universe, existence would be impossible. —Talmud, Berakhot, 6” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely. In poetry the constraint can be imposed by meter, foot, rhyme,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“He fell in love with his golem, found it a source of consolation. Life” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Here he was holding the clear proof of the existence of other skies, but at the same time without having to ascend… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone :… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of… — 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
