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
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. — 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
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
I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way. — 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
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
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
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. — 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
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
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition. — 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
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
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