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 ...

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

- 3. Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

- 4. But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made ter ...

- 5. Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ...

- 6. I felt like poisoning a monk.

- 7. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by ...

- 8. I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate dif ...

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

- 10. Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can b ...

- 11. The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

- 12. The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, whi ...

- 13. The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through imitation. But profit defeats id ...

- 14. The post-modern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be ...

- 15. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

- 16. There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preser ...

- 17. There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you ...

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