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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
