More Quotes by Umberto Eco
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
