“Symbol sometimes of the Devil,sometimes of the Risen Christ, no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Usually the recipe for a bestseller is to give people what they want. My challenge is and was: Give them what they… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale… — 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
“Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay… — 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
