Umberto Eco Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Umberto Eco quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Jan 5, 1932). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 118 we have for him.
“Our life is full of empty space.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.”
“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
“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.”
“I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.”
“I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.”
“Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.”
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.”
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