40 Motivational Umberto Eco Quotes For Success In Life

Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel II nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose). These inspirational Umberto Eco Quotes will change your life.

Best Umberto Eco Quotes

1. “When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.” – Umberto Eco
2. “Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame; it fans the big.” – Umberto Eco
3. “Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.” – Umberto Eco
4. “Every great thinker is someone else’s moron.” – Umberto Eco
5. “To survive, you must tell stories.” – Umberto Eco

6. “Love is wiser than wisdom.” – Umberto Eco

7. “Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.” – Umberto Eco
8. “We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.” – Umberto Eco
9. “I love the smell of book ink in the morning.” – Umberto Eco
10. “What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?” – Umberto Eco
11. “We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” – Umberto Eco
12. “We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.” – Umberto Eco
13. “The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.” – Umberto Eco
14. “There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.” – Umberto Eco
15. “True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.” – Umberto Eco
16. “The real hero is always a hero by mistake.” – Umberto Eco
17. “I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over.” – Umberto Eco
18. “A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.” – Umberto Eco
19. “The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.” – Umberto Eco

20. “We live for books.” – Umberto Eco

21. “Libraries have always been humanities’ way of preserving its collective wisdom” – Umberto Eco
22. “History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.” – Umberto Eco
23. “Books always speak of other books.” – Umberto Eco
24. “I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.” – Umberto Eco
25. “I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.” – Umberto Eco
26. “For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.” – Umberto Eco
27. “I’ve always said that I learned the English I know through two sources — Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.” – Umberto Eco
28. “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.” – Umberto Eco
29. “When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.” – Umberto Eco
30. “The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.” – Umberto Eco

31. “I felt like poisoning a monk.” – Umberto Eco

32. “We like lists because we don’t want to die.” – Umberto Eco
33. “Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.” – Umberto Eco
34. “The mobile phone… is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.” – Umberto Eco
35. “It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.” – Umberto Eco
36. “What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.” – Umberto Eco
37. “Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.” – Umberto Eco
38. “Socrates … did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!” – Umberto Eco
39. “I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.” – Umberto Eco
40. “Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.” – Umberto Eco

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