More Quotes by Umberto Eco
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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.
