--- title: "21 Want Quotes By Umberto Eco" description: "21 Want quotes by Umberto Eco. Plus more from Umberto Eco and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/umberto-eco-313_mathematics_mystical-additions-and-subtractions-alwa_340471.jpg" --- > [Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/mystical-additions-and-subtractions-always-come-out-the-way-you-want/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/umberto-eco-313_mathematics_mystical-additions-and-subtractions-alwa_340471.jpg) > [“We lists because we don't want to die.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/we-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/umberto-eco-313_lists_we-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die-20_208179.jpg) > [What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/what-does-culture-want-to-make-infinity-comprehensible/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/umberto-eco-313_culture_what-does-culture-want-to-make-infinity_991501.jpg) > [We like lists because we don't want to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/we-like-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/umberto-eco-313_lists_we-like-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-d_892041.jpg) > [It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/it-is-a-myth-of-publishers-that-people-want-to-read-easy-things/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac8/umberto-eco-313_books_it-is-a-myth-of-publishers-that-people-w_2818547.jpg) > [People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/people-are-tired-of-simple-things-they-want-to-be-challenged/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1c/umberto-eco-313_challenged_people-are-tired-of-simple-things-they-w_2471775.jpg) > [Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/daytime-sleep-is-like-the-sin-of-the-flesh-the-more-you-have-the-more/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efa/umberto-eco-313_feels_daytime-sleep-is-like-the-sin-of-the-fle_1753232.jpg) > [If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/if-you-want-to-use-television-to-teach-somebody-you-must-first-teach/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/umberto-eco-313_education_if-you-want-to-use-television-to-teach-s_3002099.jpg) > [There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-are-more-people-than-you-think-who-want-to-have-a-challenging/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82a/umberto-eco-313_challenges_there-are-more-people-than-you-think-who_1463844.jpg) > [Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/then-why-do-you-want-to-know-because-learning-does-not-consist-only/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/umberto-eco-313_doe_then-why-do-you-want-to-know-because-lea_1143363.jpg) > [The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-faith-a-movement-proclaims-doesn-t-count-what-counts-is-the-hope/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/umberto-eco-313_banner_the-faith-a-movement-proclaims-doesn-t-c_986148.jpg) > [We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/we-have-a-limit-a-very-discouraging-humiliating-limit-death-that-s/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/umberto-eco-313_assuming_we-have-a-limit-a-very-discouraging-humi_1189114.jpg) > [The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-ideology-of-this-america-wants-to-establish-reassurance-through/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5a/umberto-eco-313_america_the-ideology-of-this-america-wants-to-es_1812342.jpg) > [As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/as-a-scholar-i-am-interested-in-the-philosophy-of-language-semiotics/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d98/umberto-eco-313_features_as-a-scholar-i-am-interested-in-the-phil_1319691.jpg) > [I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/i-don-t-want-to-write-a-novel-per-year-i-know-that-i-need-a-break-of/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b1/umberto-eco-313_activity_i-don-t-want-to-write-a-novel-per-year-i_1704389.jpg) > [All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/all-the-blogs-facebook-twitter-are-made-by-people-who-want-to-show/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/umberto-eco-313_affair_all-the-blogs-facebook-twitter-are-made_3180506.jpg) > [To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/to-play-the-trumpet-you-must-train-your-lips-for-a-long-time-when-i/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1a/umberto-eco-313_childhood_to-play-the-trumpet-you-must-train-your_2487689.jpg) > [There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-is-only-one-thing-that-arouses-animals-more-than-pleasure-and/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/umberto-eco-313_animal_there-is-only-one-thing-that-arouses-ani_622442.jpg) > [If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/if-you-want-to-become-a-man-of-letters-and-perhaps-write-some/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/umberto-eco-313_history_if-you-want-to-become-a-man-of-letters-a_674772.jpg) > [You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/you-always-want-someone-to-hate-in-order-to-feel-justified-in-your/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8c/umberto-eco-313_abnormal_you-always-want-someone-to-hate-in-order_3078967.jpg) > [The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-older-i-grow-and-the-more-i-abandon-myself-to-god-s-will-the-less/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e9/umberto-eco-313_abandon_the-older-i-grow-and-the-more-i-abandon_963764.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Umberto Eco > [I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/i-think-that-at-a-certain-age-say-fifteen-or-sixteen-poetry-is-like/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/followers-of-the-occult-believe-in-only-what-they-already-know-and-in/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/this-has-nothing-to-do-with-realism-even-if-it-explains-also-realism/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-s-nothing-in-this-world-that-demands-more-caution-than-the/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-book-is-like-the-spoon-scissors-the-hammer-the-wheel-once/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/no-algorithm-exists-for-the-metaphor-nor-can-a-metaphor-be-produced/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/with-all-of-its-defects-the-global-market-makes-war-less-likely-even/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-fundamental-principle-that-governs-or-ought-to-govern-human/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/any-fact-becomes-important-when-it-s-connected-to-another/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/american-coffee-can-be-a-pale-solution-served-at-a-temperature-of-100/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/listening-doesn-t-mean-trying-to-understand-anything-however-trifling/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/they-say-that-a-cat-if-it-falls-from-a-window-and-hits-its-nose-can/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-are-magic-moments-involving-great-physical-fatigue-and-intense/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/all-poets-write-bad-poetry-bad-poets-publish-them-good-poets-burn-them/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) > [There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/there-are-four-kinds-of-people-in-this-world-cretins-fools-morons-and/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/umberto-eco/#itemlist", "name": "21 Want Quotes By Umberto Eco", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Umberto Eco" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/mystical-additions-and-subtractions-always-come-out-the-way-you-want/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/umberto-eco-313_mathematics_mystical-additions-and-subtractions-alwa_340471.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/umberto-eco-313_mathematics_mystical-additions-and-subtractions-alwa_340471.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/umberto-eco-313_mathematics_mystical-additions-and-subtractions-alwa_340471.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.” — Umberto Eco", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We lists because we don't want to die.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Umberto Eco" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/we-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/umberto-eco-313_lists_we-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die-20_208179.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/umberto-eco-313_lists_we-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die-20_208179.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/umberto-eco-313_lists_we-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die-20_208179.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We lists because we don't want to die.” — Umberto Eco", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What does culture want? 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