Quotes from Umberto Eco

No, eso es árabe, tonto! ¡Tenía razón Bacon cuando decía que el primer deber de un sabio es el de estudiar las lenguas! —¡Pero tampoco vos sabéis árabe! —replicaba yo picado. Y Guillermo respondía: —¡Pero al menos me doy cuenta cuando algo está en árabe!

You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.

Somos nós que, diante dos opostos, acreditamos, conforme o nosso desejo, e a nossa paixão, que um deles seja o bem e o outro o mal.

El bien de un libro consiste en ser leído. Un libro está hecho de signos que hablan de otros signos, que, a su vez, hablan de las cosas Sin unos ojos que lo lean, un libro contiene signos que no producen conceptos. Y por tanto, es mudo. Quizá la biblioteca haya nacido para salvar los libros que contiene, pero ahora vive para mantenerlos sepultados.

Bir kez daha birinin, 'Ne yap?yorsun, niçin ölüyorsun?' diye ba??rd???n? iÅŸittim. 'Ä°çimdeki bir gerçek için; onu ancak ölümle kan?tlayabilirim,' diye yan?tlad?.

Umberto Eco's first published book was the dissertation he wrote at the University of Turin, on problems of aesthetics in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Evo zašto mi se dopada ova mašina - glupa je, ne veruje, ne tera me da verujem, radi ono što joj kažem, ako sam ja glup, glupa je i ona ili on. To je pošten odnos.

What's the book about? I must admit I haven't read it. It's over five hundred pages long, which is a mistake — any defamatory work ought to be readable in half an hour. =

the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself

Alev görkemli bir ayd?nl?ktan, olaÄŸanüstü bir güçten ve bir ateÅŸ s?cakl???ndan oluÅŸur, ama bu görkemli ayd?nl?k ???tmak içindir; ateÅŸ s?cakl??? da yakmak için.

Åžeytanla yap?lan anlaÅŸmalar?n güzel yan?, insan?n onlar? kiminle iÅŸ yapt???n? bile bile imzalamas?d?r. Yoksa Cehennem'le öldürülmenin nedeni nedir?

And truth is indivisible, it shines with its own transparency and does not allow itself to be diminished by our interests or our shame.

Quando reina a anarquia, qualquer um pode se fazer rei.

Facilis. You take the cheese before it is too antiquum, without too much salis, and cut in cubes or sicut you like. And postea you put a bit of butierro or lardo to rechauffeur over the embers. And in it you put two pieces of cheese, and when it becomes tenero, zucharum et cinnamon supra positurum du bis. And immediately take to table, because it must be ate caldo caldo. - Salvatore

Ora penso invece che il mondo sia un enigma benigno, che la nostra follia rende terribile perché pretende di interpretarlo secondo la propria verità. I

As an ancient proverb says, three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works. And aches. -Adso of Melk

Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances.

çünkü aynalar?n öyle bir büyüsü vard?r ki, ayna olduklar?n? bilseniz bile sizi ürkütürler.

I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth.

Al parecer no podemos pasarnos sin el enemigo. La figura del enemigo no puede ser abolida por los procesos de civilización.

Opera aperta (The open work), published in 1962, the first of Eco's books on a modern topic and the work with which he made his name in Italy.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El verdadero amor quiere el bien del amado (Umberto Eco)

No one ever obliges us to know, Adso. We must, that is all, even if we comprehend imperfectly.

Plan'in olusturulmasi gunlerimizi aliyordu. Buldugumuz en son bagintiyi birbirimize iletmek icin calismalarimiza ara veriyorduk. Elimize ne gecerse okuyorduk: ansiklopediler, gazeteler, resimli romanlar, yayinevi kataloglari.