More Quotes by Umberto Eco
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
