Quotes by : Umberto Eco

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules....

Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to....

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction....

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite....

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories....

I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today,....

Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung....

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for....

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins....

El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa,....