One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. Umberto Eco More Quotes by Umberto Eco More Quotes From Umberto Eco What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream? Umberto Eco fleeting shadow dream You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart. Umberto Eco betrayal passion hate When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies. Umberto Eco strong enemy 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 powerful witty life It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. Umberto Eco succeed dying art Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Umberto Eco captains australia america I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. Umberto Eco opinion lost The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret. Umberto Eco powerful secret matter We like lists because we don't want to die. Umberto Eco wanting-to-die lists want When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. Umberto Eco poet writing remember For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Umberto Eco doorstep home enemy I felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco poisoning monk motivational All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. Umberto Eco devil writing beautiful Books always speak of other books. Umberto Eco speak book That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life. Umberto Eco real attitude meaningful He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death. Umberto Eco creative imagination reality A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. Umberto Eco inspirational war funny You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you. Umberto Eco stars strong believe All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities. Umberto Eco important responsibility reality If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television. Umberto Eco use want television
