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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. - Umberto Eco Quotes

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.

Italian Novelist

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. - Umberto Eco Quotes

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Italian Novelist

I felt like poisoning a monk. - Umberto Eco Quotes

I felt like poisoning a monk.

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition. - Umberto Eco Quotes

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

America Imagination

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. - Umberto Eco Quotes

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

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. - Umberto Eco Quotes

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.

Italian Novelist

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else - Umberto Eco Quotes

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. - Umberto Eco Quotes

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Italian Novelist

Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco Quotes

Translation is the art of failure.

Italian Novelist

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity - Umberto Eco Quotes

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. - Umberto Eco Quotes

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Italian Novelist

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. - Umberto Eco Quotes

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Italian Novelist

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. - Umberto Eco Quotes

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. - Umberto Eco Quotes

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Italian Novelist

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn - Umberto Eco Quotes

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn

Appearance Flowers

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. - Umberto Eco Quotes

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Italian Novelist

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation. - Umberto Eco Quotes

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Italian Novelist Sports

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. - Umberto Eco Quotes

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Italian Novelist

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. - Umberto Eco Quotes

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Italian Novelist

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. - Umberto Eco Quotes

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Italian Novelist

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - Umberto Eco Quotes

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Italian Novelist

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. - Umberto Eco Quotes

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Italian Novelist

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