I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — 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
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so… — 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
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event...… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers'… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to… — 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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