Best Umberto Eco Qoutes
- Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. Altered
- Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally… Allusion
- A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. Generating
- There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A… Better
- And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already… All
- The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that… Abandon
- How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! Beautiful
- I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we… Always Looking
- Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated… Daytime
- Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text. All
- I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day… Altitude
- Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components,… Components
- Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk… Always Talk
- A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor. Confessor
- libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's… Book
- How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon. Becomes
- I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing… Any
- But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."… Accept
- Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie,… All
- To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen… Actual
- A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of… Adultery
- After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is… Able
- I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted… Absolute
- Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy? Beautiful
- I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry,… Age
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