Quotes Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, i...

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but ...

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's...

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an en...

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for a...

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a ...

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text...

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology...

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear...

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make peo...

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the fe...

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up...

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of bein...

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one i...

Translation is the art of failure....

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then beli...

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is...