Umberto Eco Quotes
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Umberto Eco Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.
I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth.
Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ...
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours.
Rather than giving out information someone would be able to check, it's better to limit yourself to insinuation.
He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.
Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...
If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
The thing whose address I lost is not the End, it's the Beginning. Not the object to be possessed but the subject that possesses me. Misery
So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they are.
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;
No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
So we must spell out its faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and as if amalgamated with a will wholly bent on evil.
For what I was to see at the abbey would make me think that it is often inquisitors who create heretics.
Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted.
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one - had you had the Opportunity? I