Umberto Eco Quotes

Porque no todas las verdades son para todos los oídos, ni todas las mentiras pueden ser reconocidas como tales por cualquier alma piadosa,

The sun is good because it does the body good, and because it has the sense to reappear every day; therefore, whatever returns is good, not what passes and is done with.

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 times instead of them.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the ot...

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched bythe often perverse wisdom of man!

Dünyada dört çeşit insan vardır: alıklar, budalalar, aptallar, deliler...Alık konuşmaz bile, ağzından salyalar akar, spastiktir. Dondurmasını alnına yapıştırır, eşgüdümü yetersiz olduğundan. Döner kap...

…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...

The Templars realized that the secret lay not only in possessing the global map of the currents, but also in knowing the critical point, the Omphalos, the Umbilicus Telluris, the Navel of the World, t...

I say that many of these heresies, independently of the doctrines they assert, encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life. I say that ve...

İnsan olanaksız umutlar besleyerek yaşadığı sürece zaten bir kaybedendir.

E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.

I will not deny, however, that in the course of the journey, he sometimes stopped at the edge of a meadow, at the entrance to a forest, to gather some herb (always the same one, I believe): and he wou...

I was dozing, and the clock woke me. I didn’t hear the first few chimes distinctly, that is to say, I didn’t count them. But as soon as I decided to count I realized that there had already been three,...

Before the eyes of monks intent on meditation, what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques, those monstrous shapes and shapely monsters? Those sordid apes? Those lions, those centaurs, those ha...

Por que Deus é o ser perfeitíssimo? Porque, se fosse imperfeitíssimo, seria meu primo Gustavo.

Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;

If the eye could see the demons that people the universe, existence would be impossible. —Talmud, Berakhot, 6

I was becoming addicted, Diotallevi was becoming corrupted, Belbo was becoming converted. But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the i...

There’s the rub. The manifesto doesn’t say; it leaves you with your mouth watering. But it was important; so important, it had to remain secret.