98 Of The Best Quotes By Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco, an Italian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and writer of children’s books, essays, fiction and academic texts was among brilliant authors of twentieth century. He was known for captivating use of symbols, puzzles, languages and references. Some his best write-ups relay astounding allusions and narrative inventions. His perspective novel II Nome Della Rosa is a beautiful amalgam of biblical analysis, fictional semiotics, historical mystery, literary theory and medieval studies. Eco rose to fame with his acclaimed masterpieces like The Island of the Day Before, Foucault’s Pendulum and bestseller The Prague Cemetery. In addition to his rich works of art, he is also known for writing coherent essays based on contemporary culture. All in all his work is a beautiful representation of humor, irony, aesthetics, interpretations and ideas. An expert at literature and philosophy, Eco had a reputation of foremost thinker in academia. His works unveil lies, half-truths, conspiracies and facts, thereby compelling the readers to think beyond their realm. To commemorate the life of Umberto Eco, we have put together some quotes from his books and the man himself. Presenting a collection of Umberto Eco quotes about life, love, history, art, literature etc.
We live for books.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
To survive, you must tell stories.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
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.
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
: books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told. ){kind=small}
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
Fear prophets, Adso, 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.
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.
When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
