Quotes by : Umberto Eco

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended....

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the....

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

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep....

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was....

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story....

So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, one....

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than....

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.....