X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Umberto Eco Inspirational Quotes (339)

Page 14 of 15
Filter & Style
Image
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
Image
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
Umberto Eco
Image
We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.
Umberto Eco
Image
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
Umberto Eco
Image
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
Umberto Eco
Image
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco
Image
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
Umberto Eco
Image
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
Umberto Eco
Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
Umberto Eco
Image
And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
Umberto Eco
Image
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
Umberto Eco
Image
The poets did not win the philosophers surrendered.
Umberto Eco
Image
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
Umberto Eco
Image
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.
Umberto Eco
Image
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
Image
He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.
Umberto Eco
Image
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
Umberto Eco
Image
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
Umberto Eco
Image
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
Umberto Eco
Image
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
Umberto Eco
Image
I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
Umberto Eco
Image
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.
Umberto Eco
Image
The followers must feel besieged.
Umberto Eco
Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
Umberto Eco
Previous
Next