Quotes from Umberto Eco

The social theory of conspiracy, Popper says, is a consequence of the end of God as a reference point and of the consequent question, Who is there in his place? This place is now occupied by various men and powerful, sinister groups that can be blamed for having organized the Great Depression and all the evils we suffer.10

Call Bogomil that whore you screw at night, with your heretic cock, you pig!

With irony we say the opposite of truth.

La vida no es más que una lenta rememoración de la infancia.

Ama baz? ÅŸeyler yürekle sezilir.

Je récapitule. Entrez dans une salle de ciné : si pour aller de A à B, les protagonistes mettent plus de temps que vous ne le souhaiteriez, alors c'est un film porno.

Boceto: esa misma tarde, mamá espolvorea con talco el cuerpecito rosado de mi hermana, yo pregunto cuándo va a salirle la pilila, mamá explica que a las niñas no les sale pilila, y se quedan así. De golpe vuelvo a ver a Mary Lena, y las blancas braguitas asomando bajo la suave brisa de su falda azul, y comprendo que es rubia y altiva, e inaccesible, porque es diferente. Toda relación es imposible, pertenece a otra raza.

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false.

la intolerancia salvaje se ataja de raíz, a través de una educación constante que empiece desde la más tierna infancia, antes de que se escriba en un libro y antes de que se convierta en costra de conducta demasiado espesa y dura.

Kendi kafanla düÅŸünmeyi öÄŸrenmelisin.

dienos miegas yra lyg k?no nuod?m?: kuo daugiau jos esi patyr?s, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.

In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that demonstrate the disaster of an aging world.

Vero Lettore è chi capisce che il segreto di un testo è il suo stesso vuoto.

Kas tai yra meil?? Nieko n?ra pasaulyje, nei žmogaus, nei velnio, nei kito dalyko, kuris man atrodyt? toks pat ?tartinas, kaip meil?, nes ji ?silaužia ? siel? giliau nei kas kitas, ir n?ra nieko kito, kas taip pripildyt? ir supan?iot? šird?, kaip meil?. Tod?l per meil? siela nugarma ? giliausius pragarus, nebent jei turi ginkl?, kuriais gali jai atsispirti.

if you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen

through witty riddles and unsuspected metaphors, though ti tells us things differently to the way they are, as if it were lying, it actually obliges us to examine them more closely, and it makes us say: Ah, this is just as things are, and I dint know it.

De ideale functie van een bibliotheek is om een beetje te lijken op de kraam van een bouquiniste, de ideale plek voor trouvailles.

Learning is not like a coin, which remains physically whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn our through use and ostentation.

I libri si rispettano usandoli, non lasciandoli stare.

You too will seek your fortune, and you must be keen in obtaining it. If here you have learned to dodge a musket ball, there you must learn to elude envy, jealousy, greed, using those same weapons to combat your adversaries, namely, everyone.

observe the cascades of light that spread through the darkness of a cathedral, stirring within themselves a multitude of monads, seeds, indissoluble natures, drops of incense that exploded spontaneously, primordial atoms engaged in combat, battles, skirmishes by squadrons, amid numberless conjunctions and separations—obvious proof of the composition of this universe of ours, made of nothing but prime bodies teeming in the void.

Nel suo genere x'è un dio. X'è il genere che x'è merda.

The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What

È, o è stato, per molti aspetti, un grande uomo. Ma proprio per questo è strano. Sono solo gli uomini piccoli che sembrano normali.