Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel II nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose). These inspirational Umberto Eco Quotes will change your life.
Best Umberto Eco Quotes
- “When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.” – Umberto Eco
- “Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame; it fans the big.” – Umberto Eco
- “Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.” – Umberto Eco
- “Every great thinker is someone else’s moron.” – Umberto Eco
- “To survive, you must tell stories.” – Umberto Eco
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“Love is wiser than wisdom.” – Umberto Eco
- “Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.” – Umberto Eco
- “We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.” – Umberto Eco
- “I love the smell of book ink in the morning.” – Umberto Eco
- “What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?” – Umberto Eco
- “We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” – Umberto Eco
- “We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.” – Umberto Eco
- “The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.” – Umberto Eco
- “There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.” – Umberto Eco
- “True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.” – Umberto Eco
- “The real hero is always a hero by mistake.” – Umberto Eco
- “I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over.” – Umberto Eco
- “A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.” – Umberto Eco
- “The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.” – Umberto Eco
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“We live for books.” – Umberto Eco
- “Libraries have always been humanities’ way of preserving its collective wisdom” – Umberto Eco
- “History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.” – Umberto Eco
- “Books always speak of other books.” – Umberto Eco
- “I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.” – Umberto Eco
- “I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.” – Umberto Eco
- “For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.” – Umberto Eco
- “I’ve always said that I learned the English I know through two sources — Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.” – Umberto Eco
- “To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.” – Umberto Eco
- “When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.” – Umberto Eco
- “The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.” – Umberto Eco
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“I felt like poisoning a monk.” – Umberto Eco
- “We like lists because we don’t want to die.” – Umberto Eco
- “Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.” – Umberto Eco
- “The mobile phone… is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.” – Umberto Eco
- “It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.” – Umberto Eco
- “What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.” – Umberto Eco
- “Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.” – Umberto Eco
- “Socrates … did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!” – Umberto Eco
- “I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.” – Umberto Eco
- “Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.” – Umberto Eco
