17 Quotations by Umberto Eco
- 1. A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy ...
![A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
![A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.. Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
![Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.. Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made ter ...
![But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made ter .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ...
![Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. I felt like poisoning a monk.
![I felt like poisoning a monk.. Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by ...
![I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate dif ...
![I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate dif .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
![Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.. Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can b ...
![Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can b .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
![The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.. Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, whi ...
![The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, whi .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through imitation. But profit defeats id ...
![The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through imitation. But profit defeats id .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. The post-modern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be ...
![The post-modern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 15. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
![The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.. Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 16. There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preser ...
![There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preser .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
- 17. There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you ...
![There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you .... Umberto Eco.](/img/view.gif)
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