Best Umberto Eco Quotations
- An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. Creating
- By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. Abstraction
- When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if… Accused
- All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real. All
- Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the… Artist
- Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after… Answer
- Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is… All
- Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding.… Clear
- The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better… Been
- The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the… Alluding
- The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted… Exactly
- The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate? Becomes
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Coward
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… Attempt
- Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies… Free
- In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries,… Catholic
- A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the… Book
- Translation is the art of failure. Art
- But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that… Country
- Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at… Balance
- When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. Atheist
- I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the… All
- People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. Challenged
- A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. Atheist
- We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. Death
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