Umberto Eco Quotes
Best 20+ Umberto Eco Messages, Quotes, and Images
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
To survive, you must tell stories.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.
I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.
If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.
I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.
I had to stand in front of my refrigerator, which was open, dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth. If I did that, I was good. Otherwise I was nauseous.
Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.