Source: Foucault's Pendulum
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Famous Umberto Eco Quotes
“Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.”
Source: This is Not the End of the Book: A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac
“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.”
Source: On Literature
Source: Name of the Rose
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom”
Source: Name of the Rose
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
Source: Travels in Hyperreality
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
Source: Name of the Rose
Source: The Name of the Rose
Source: Travels in Hyperreality
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
Source: The Name of the Rose
Source: Name of the Rose
Source: Name of the Rose
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.”
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.”
“Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.”
“Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.”