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I have always been fascinated...

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

But it has often happened tha...

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

libraries are fascinating pla...

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Man's principle trait is a re...

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

That day, I began to be incre...

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

If Bush had read all the docu...

If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The order that our mind imagi...

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The Fundamental Principle tha...

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Books are not made to be beli...

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The monkish vows keep us far ...

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

And so I fell devoutly asleep...

And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Fear prophets and those prepa...

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

As an adolescent I wrote comi...

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

A transposable aphorism is a ...

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I think a book should be judg...

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

In the United States there's ...

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Dan Brown is a character from...

Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I have come to believe that t...

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.

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It is psychologically very ha...

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

We have a limit, a very discou...

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

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