Top 117 Quotes by Umberto Eco

About Umberto Eco

These are some quotes by Italian author Umberto Eco Novelist, who lived between January 5, 1932 and February 19, 2016.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Umberto Eco

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Umberto Eco

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Umberto Eco

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

Umberto Eco

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Umberto Eco

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