Quotes by : Umberto Eco

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to....

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus....

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself....

...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy....

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is....

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you....

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a....

William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand....

We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy....