Seth Messenger : Umberto Eco's quotes

Umberto Eco said :

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Umberto Eco
(Quotes)
#13376
The book would be thinking that man can want abundance on Earth even the land of plenty.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13377
I'm proustian: I find the meaning of life in the memories of childhood!

Umberto Eco
(Le Figaro littéraire, 21 mai 2015)


#13378
I'm a prisoner of the "name of the rose" as Garcia Marquez was "One hundred years of solitude".

Umberto Eco
(Le Figaro littéraire, 16 mai 2015)


#13379
The pleasure of scholarship is reserved for the losers. More someone knows things, more they went him wrong.

Umberto Eco
(Numéro zéro)


#13380
It is your father who is obliged to, and not the opposite: you pay a moment of pleasant Tickle his many years of tears.

Umberto Eco
(L’île du jour d’avant)


#13381
Every writer is always telling a same obsession.

Umberto Eco
(Télérama - 10 Septembre 2003)


#13382
We know we're going towards death and, in the face of this inevitable occurrence, we have an instrument: laughter.

Umberto Eco
(Télérama - 10 Septembre 2003)


#13383
All great writers are great readers of dictionaries: they swim through words.

Umberto Eco
(Télérama - 10 Septembre 2003)


#13384
The essential function of a library is to promote the discovery of books which the player suspected the existence and which are vitally important for him.

Umberto Eco
(Source inconnue)


#13385
I say that there is a secret society with branches all over the world, who is plotting to spread the rumor that there is a universal conspiracy.

Umberto Eco
(Le Pendule de Foucault)


#13386
Each of the books of Aristotle destroyed a part of science that Christendom had accumulated throughout the centuries.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13387
Before, we were looking to the sky, now we look to the Earth, and we believe in heaven on the testimony of the Earth.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13388
Every word of the philosopher, who now swear even the saints and the pontiffs, hit the image of the world.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13389
You eliminate not laughter by eliminating the book.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13390
The laughter distracted the villain of fear. But the law is needed through fear, whose real name is fear of God.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13391
The book could teach that break free from the fear of the devil is wisdom.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13392
Laughter releases the villain of the fear of the devil, because the devil appears as poor and crazy, so controllable.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13393
At the time where he laughs, regardless of the villain to die.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13394
The book could be born the aspiration to destroy the death through the freedom from fear.

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la Rose)


#13395
Nothing communicates more courage to the coward than the fear of others.

Umberto Eco
(Le nom de la rose)


#13396
The weaknesses of the bad guys are the same as those of the saints.

Umberto Eco
(Le nom de la rose)


#13397
Lets talk about your heart, asks the faces, don't listen to the languages...

Umberto Eco
(Le Nom de la rose)


#13398
Can we really be both back and traditionalist Catholic? Besides, have Céline written with Word, Wordperfect, or Wordstar? Finally, would have Descartes it programmed in Pascal?

Umberto Eco
(Comment voyager avec un saumon ?)


#13399
A hen is the device that uses an egg to produce another egg.

Umberto Eco
(Source inconnue)


#13400
If God existed, he would be a library.

Umberto Eco
(L’événement du Jeudi - 9 Avril 1998)


#13401
Television makes intelligent people who do not have access to culture and what's wrong with those who think themselves cultivated.

Umberto Eco
(Source inconnue)


#13402
Science is not only what we should or can do, but also what we could do when well even should not do.

Umberto Eco
(Le nom de la rose)


#13403
Daytime sleep is as the sin of the flesh: more we got, more you would like.

Umberto Eco
(Source inconnue)


#13404
The themes of the tragedy are universal, whereas those of comedy are more rooted in the cultures.

Umberto Eco
(Source inconnue)


#13405
There are four ideal types: the jerk, idiot, stupid and crazy. The normal is the mix of the four.

Umberto Eco
(Le pendule de Foucault)


#13406
Worldwide, there is a surefire way to recognize a taxi driver: it's someone who never change.

Umberto Eco
(Comment voyager avec un saumon)


#13407
The writer tries to escape the interpretations, not necessarily because there is not, but because there may be several and it won't stop the readers on one.

Umberto Eco
(Le Point - 15 Février 2002)


#13408
The important thing is not so much to have memories, it's always to settle accounts with them.

Umberto Eco
(Le Point - 15 Février 2002)


#13409
The price to pay for Einstein on the one hand, is to have a fool on the other side!

Umberto Eco
(Télérama - 10 Septembre 2003)


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It was then 17:53:26 (Paris time, France, planet Earth - Known Universe).
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