Quotes About Umberto

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

Umberto Eco has called his poem 'the apotheosis of the virtual world'.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

Bacon was right in saying that the conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.

All the world's follies," he replied, "turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility." Then

No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.

The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than the catalogue, an instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.

Qué lector modelo quería yo mientras escribía? Un cómplice, sin duda, que entrase en mi juego. Lo que yo quería era volverme totalmente medieval y vivir en el Medievo como si fuese mi época (y viceversa).

weil er die Abtei führt, als wäre sie eine Zitadelle zur Verteidigung der Bibliothek.

Omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura       nobis est in speculum (All the world's creatures      As a book and a picture      Are to us as a mirror)

Neutral territory, therefore, this abbey where the two groups could meet.

We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.

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

There's nothing worse than illustrating a chapter on space travel with a photograph of the latest American satellite. Signor Garamond had taught me that it needs, at the very least, an angel by Dore.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.