Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
Umberto Eco
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Essayist
Historian
Literary Critic
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Semiotician
Translator
Lissändria
Umberto Ecco
Umberto Eccounstino
Humberto Eco
Dedalus
Umberto Eko
Oumperto Eko
Eco Umberto
U. Eco
Says
Maxims
Fact
Urge
Funny
Urges
Words
Appears
Facts
Equally
Untroubled
True
Witty
Malaise
Long
Opposite
Aphorism
Opposites
Maxim
More quotes by Umberto Eco
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
Umberto Eco
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
Umberto Eco
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
Umberto Eco
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
Umberto Eco
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
Umberto Eco
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
Umberto Eco
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
Umberto Eco
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
Umberto Eco
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
Umberto Eco
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
Umberto Eco
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
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
Umberto Eco
Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
Umberto Eco
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
Umberto Eco
The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco
We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
Umberto Eco
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
Umberto Eco
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
Umberto Eco
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
Umberto Eco
