Umberto Eco Quotes

فقدتُ كلَّ يقين ، ما عدا اليقين بأنّه يوجد دائمًا وراء ظهرك شخصٌ يريدُ خداعَك

You cannot change the world with ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else does and are no trouble to anyone; they're successful, make money, find g...

Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.

The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.

The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin...

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.

But now 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 interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributin...

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. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you o...

When a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.

Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [...] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities.

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of...

الفاشلون - شأنهم شأن العصاميّين - يملكون معارفَ أكثر من المُتفوّقين ، إذا كنتَ تريد أن تتفوَّق فعليك أن تعرف شيئًا بعينه ، دون إضاعة الوقت في معرفة كل شيء ؛ متعة المعرفة مخصّصة للفاشلين ، كلّما أكثرتَ...

Love is wiser than wisdom.

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.

E nevoie de un dușman ca să-i dai poporului o speranță. Cineva a spus că patriotismul e ultimul refugiu al canaliilor: cine nu are principii morale se înfășoară de obicei într-un steag, iar bastarzii...

But chance has a taste for conspiracy.