Umberto Eco Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.”

“Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.”

“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”

“When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.”

“To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.”

“What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.”

“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.”

“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”

“A secret is powerful when it is empty.”

“If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.”