“We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Hitler’s one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“So you truly do not believe in God?" "I find no reason to, in nature... If the idea of God is unknown… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Wherever you put it, Foucault’s Pendulum swings from a motionless point while the earth rotates beneath it. Every point of the universe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“To All the World: I declare the earth is hollow and habitable within; containing a number of solid, concentric spheres; one within… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I knew the earth was rotating, and I with it, and Saint-Martin-des-Champs and all Paris with me, and that together we were… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously,… — 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
