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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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.
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.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
