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Umberto Eco Quotes

Umberto Eco

Italian novelist, semiotician, essayist, philosopher and critic

Nationality: Italy
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Type: Novelist
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Birth: 1932-?
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Loving is half of believing.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. L
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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We are the children of our own deeds.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social obse
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Life is a voyage.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. - Hugo, Victor
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, ''That is all there was!'' But twist the
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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