There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no… — 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
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
I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It… — 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
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
