If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. Umberto Eco More Quotes by Umberto Eco More Quotes From Umberto Eco There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. Umberto Eco shopping lists writing 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 humility fear religion A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. Umberto Eco scripture atheist dream I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. Umberto Eco ghost talking people Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation. Umberto Eco outcomes poetry literature Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility. Umberto Eco political artist responsibility The truth is an anagram of an anagram. Umberto Eco anagrams truth-is truth The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. Umberto Eco passion insane lying There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one. Umberto Eco other-worlds wine night Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it. Umberto Eco biased novelists thinking It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers. Umberto Eco produce newspapers opinion There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. Umberto Eco magic-moments book past History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error. Umberto Eco errors blood world libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands Umberto Eco land feelings book I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses. Umberto Eco serious watches television Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament. Umberto Eco media mean people I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own. Umberto Eco articles enjoyed my-own I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way. Umberto Eco conspiracy people way I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. Umberto Eco source language two the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life. Umberto Eco destiny hate beautiful
