Quotes from Umberto Eco

I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch it long enough. I was savoring the first drops of the poison that would carry us all to perdition.

Ognuno nasce con un dono, tutto sta nello scoprirlo e nell'avere fortuna di vederlo apprezzato

Haven't you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to foresee rain and drought, to release hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, to split continents, sink islands (no doubt Atlantis disappeared in some such reckless experiment), raise mountain chains …You realize the atomic bomb is nothing in comparison? Besides

Ya siz?' dedim çocukça bir küstahl?kla. 'Hiç yanl?? yapmaz m?s?n?z?' 'S?k s?k,' diye yan?tlad?. 'Ama yaln?zca bir yanl??tansa, birçok yanl?? tasarl?yorum, böylece de hiçbir yanl???n tutsa?? olmuyorum.

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk toward the end of the fourteenth century.

A thesis may have as its "public" title "Radio Commentary and the Attempted Murder of Palmiro Togliatti," but its subtitle (and its true topic) will be "Radio Commentators' Use of Gino Bartali's Tour de France Victory to Distract the Public from the Attempted Murder of Palmiro Togliatti.

I remembered one of the many stories about him: some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: "Yes, sir, I do indeed come from the monkey. But you, sir, are returning to one!

And 'poor' does not so much mean owning a palace or not; it means, rather, keeping or renouncing the right to legislate on earthly matters.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they believe in nothing. They believe in everything.

Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?

The lamp fell right on the pile of books that had been knocked from the table all in a heap, lying open. The oil spilled out, the fire immediately seized a fragile parchment, which blazed up like a bundle of dry twigs. Everything happened in a few moments, as for centuries those ancient pages had been yearning for arson and were rejoicing in the sudden satisfaction of an immemorial thirst for ecpyrosis.

There are times when I think of switching to narcotics. There, at least you can rely on a heroin pusher to push heroin.

Kitaplardaki tekboynuzlu t?pk? bir bask? gibidir. E?er bask? varsa, bask?s? yap?lan bir ?eyin var olmu? olmas? gerekir.

Parten del concepto de que el bien debe realizarse aquí, y no más allá de la tumba. Por lo cual, obran sólo para la conquista de este mundo.

when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;

Who among us is living in the past? You, who would bestow the horrors of the toiling industrial age upon this country, or I, who wish that our poor Europe might recover the naturalness and faith of these children of slaves?

Basit insanlar her zaman herkes için bedel öder…

Porque el ser humano, para saber quién es, necesita la mirada del otro, y cuanto más le ama y le admira el otro, más se reconoce (o cree reconocerse);

El libro tendrá que dar la idea de otro periódico, mostrar cómo yo durante todo un año me he empleado a fondo para realizar un modelo de periodismo independiente de toda presión, dejando entender que la aventura acabó mal porque no se podía alumbrar una voz libre.

Dire che un testo virtualmente non ha limiti non significa che ogni atto interpretativo possa avere un esito felice. Per

Antychryst mo?e zrodzi? siÄ™ z pobo?noÅ›ci, z nadmiernej miÅ'oÅ›ci do Boga lub prawdy, jak kacerz rodzi siÄ™ ze Å›wiÄ™tego, a opÄ™tany przez demona z jasnowidzÄ…cego. LÄ™kaj siÄ™, Adso, proroków i tych, którzy gotowi sÄ… umrze? za prawdÄ™, gdy? zwykle pociÄ…gajÄ… za sobÄ… Å›mier? licznych, czÄ™sto przed sobÄ…, czasem zamiast siebie.

Peygamberlerden kork Adso; gerçek uÄŸruna ölmeye haz?r olanlardan da; çünkü onlar genellikle birçok insan? da kendileriyle birlikte ölmeye sürüklerler, bazen kendilerinden önce, bazen de kendilerinin yerine.

Ahora bien, desde el principio se construyen como enemigos no tanto a los que son diferentes y que nos amenazan directamente (como sería el caso de los bárbaros), sino a aquellos que alguien tiene interés en representar como amenazadores aunque no nos amenacen directamente, de modo que lo que ponga de relieve su diversidad no sea su carácter de amenaza, sino que sea su diversidad misma la que se convierta en señal de amenaza. Véase

A thesis studies an object by making use of specific instruments. Often the object is a book and the instruments are other books.