More Quotes by Umberto Eco
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.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
