Quotes from Umberto Eco

Wo er einen Kopf haben sollte, hat er einen alten Bücherschrank. Einen wurmstichigen.

Pictura est laicorum literatura, ? ????????? ????? ? ?????????? ??? ????? ????????.

The sign is not concerned with that smoke and that fire, but with the possibility of a relationship between antecedent and consequent regulating of any occurrence of the smoke (and of the fire). The sign is type, not occurrence.

Il riso libera il villano dalla paura del diavolo, perché nella festa degli stolti anche il diavolo appare povero e stolto, dunque controllabile. Ma questo libro potrebbe insegnare che liberarsi della paura del diavolo è sapienza.

Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! —Somos enanos —admitió Guillermo—, pero enanos subidos sobre los hombros de aquellos gigantes y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.

Gençler art?k hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek istemiyorlar, bilim geriliyor, tüm dünya tepetaklak olmuÅŸ, körler körleri yönetiyor ve onlar? uçuruma sürüklüyorlar, kuÅŸlar, daha uçmay? öÄŸrenmeden yuvadan ayr?l?yor, eÅŸekler çal?yor, öküzler oynuyor.

His mouth was almost incapable of managing a smile, and altogether he gave the impression of dealing with the pain of existence out of some sort of distasteful duty.

Se nace siempre bajo el signo equivocado y vivir con dignidad significa corregir día a día el propio horóscopo.

I believe that over the centuries the experience of beauty has always been similar to the way we feel, as if seen from the back, when we are in the presence of something we are not a part of and do not wish to become a part of at any cost. In that distance lies the slender thread that separates the experience of beauty from other forms of passion.

Ma da questo libro quante menti corrotte come la tua trarrebbero l'estremo sillogismo, per cui il riso è il fine dell'uomo! Il riso distoglie, per alcuni istanti, il villano dalla paura. Ma la legge si impone attraverso la paura, il cui nome vero è timor di Dio.

And he answered that the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.

E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.

those menacing prehistoric birds of wire and rotting canvas loomed over me, evil dragonflies that some secret power had hung from the ceiling of the nave. I saw them as sapiential metaphors, far more meaningful than their didactic pretext. A swarm of Jurassic insects and reptiles, allegory of the long terrestrial migrations the Pendulum was tracing, aimed at me like angry archons with their long archeopterix-beaks

No es que el incrédulo no deba creer en nada. No cree en todo. Cree en una cosa cada vez, y en una segunda cuando deriva de alguna manera de la primera. Avanza como un miope, es metódico, no aventura horizontes. Dos cosas no relacionadas entre sí, creer en las dos, y con la idea de que, en algún lugar, haya una tercera, oculta, que las vincula, esto es la credulidad.

Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.

Os perdedores, assim como os autodidatas, sempre têm conhecimentos mais vastos que os vencedores, e quem quiser vencer deverá saber uma única coisa e não perder tempo sabendo todas, o prazer da erudição é reservado aos perdedores. Quanto mais coisas uma pessoa sabe, menos coisas deram certo para ela.

Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them.

And that will be full knowledge, the learning of the singular.

Vale para el Pentágono y para la CIA, pero no me dirás que todas las revistas de coches dependen de los servicios secretos de la demoplutojudeocracia al acecho.

tüm dilleri konuÅŸtuÄŸunu, ama hiçbirini bilmediÄŸini anlad?m.

If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.

So must we then read books without faith, which is a theological virtue?" "There are two other theological virtues as well. The hope that the possible is. And charity, toward those who believed in good faith that the possible was.

The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.

Ä°nsanlar? kendinden geçiren görüntüyle günahkâr say?klama aras?nda çoÄŸu kez tek bir ad?m vard?r.