Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — 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
I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal… — 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
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
Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and… — 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
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build… — 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
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
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules.… — 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
