Way Quotes by Umberto Eco

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

— Umberto Eco

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

— Umberto Eco

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

— Umberto Eco

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

— Umberto Eco

All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness…

— Umberto Eco

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal…

— Umberto Eco

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one.…

— Umberto Eco

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

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

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

To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We…

— Umberto Eco

A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers'…

— Umberto Eco

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

The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build…

— Umberto Eco

Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules.…

— Umberto Eco

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the…

— Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories…

— Umberto Eco