Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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
Lost
Others
Else
Belong
Lonely
Generation
Comfortable
Generations
Company
More quotes by Umberto Eco
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
Umberto Eco
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Umberto Eco
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
Umberto Eco
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
Umberto Eco
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
Umberto Eco
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
Umberto Eco
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar queen, alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
Umberto Eco
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
Umberto Eco
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Umberto Eco
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed? I asked, for no good reason. Is Jorge right? Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
Umberto Eco
Libraries can take the place of God.
Umberto Eco
To survive, you must tell stories.
Umberto Eco
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
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
Umberto Eco
I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.
Umberto Eco
When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
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
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Umberto Eco
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
Umberto Eco
