It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers. Umberto Eco More Quotes by Umberto Eco More Quotes From Umberto Eco The United States needed a civil war to unite properly. Umberto Eco united-states needed war My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. Umberto Eco accountants father It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. Umberto Eco justification hard I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Umberto Eco weekend writing thinking The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book. Umberto Eco may book Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered. Umberto Eco succeed new-york order Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state. Umberto Eco oedipus hero character I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels. Umberto Eco left-hand writing hands I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper. Umberto Eco plastic showers paper Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that. Umberto Eco church goes-on people It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house. Umberto Eco journey home long I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become. Umberto Eco seals tombs said but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. Umberto Eco freedom-of-speech speech mean Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. Umberto Eco great-history altered littles How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! Umberto Eco touched beautiful men And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity. Umberto Eco sleep long people 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 passion love lying On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ? Umberto Eco italian reflection latin The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. Umberto Eco intelligent people knowledge Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects. Umberto Eco irrelevance numbers school
