There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. — 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
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
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he… — 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
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — 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 have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old,… — 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
![“But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a9/umberto-eco-313_accepting_but-why-do-some-people-support-the-heret_2387868.jpg)
