Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco OMRIwas an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician and university professor. He is best known internationally for his 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucaultand L'isola del giorno prima. His novel Il cimitero di Praga, released in 2010, was a best-seller...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 January 1932
CountryItaly
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
I felt like poisoning a monk.