“ I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world than in the Christian. The Christian world makes it the object of meditation, but acts as if it may b… Umberto Eco
“ The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple....""Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memories of Ubertino, whi… Umberto Eco
“ But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a virgin in the forest, so that the animal, c… Umberto Eco
“ 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 in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety tha… Umberto Eco
“ And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas… Umberto Eco
“ 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 to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when the… Umberto Eco
“ It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the re… Umberto Eco
“ Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In… Umberto Eco
“ Io non vi dico di prepararvi all'altra vita, ma di usare bene quest'unica vita che vi è data, per affrontare quando verrà, l'unica morte di cui avrete mai esperienza. E' necessario meditare prima, e m… Umberto Eco
“ Über die deutsche Sprache: „Sie halten sich für tief, weil ihre Sprache unklar ist, ihr fehlt die clarté der französischen Sprache, sie sagt nie exakt das, was sie sollte, so dass kein Deutscher jemal… Umberto Eco
“ La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser creativos es ser valientes Umberto Eco
“ Signore, aveva risposto Saint-Savin, la prima qualità di un onest'uomo è il disprezzo della religione, che ci vuole timorosi della cosa più naturale del mondo, che è la morte, odiatori dell'unica cosa… Umberto Eco
“ Librat nuk janë bërë për tu besuar, por për t’u hetuar. Kur lexojmë një libër nuk duhet të pyesim veten çfarë thotë, por çfarë nënkupton Umberto Eco
“ For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by… Umberto Eco
