Top 400 Umberto Eco Quotes (2024 Update)
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Umberto Eco Quote: “Madmen and children always speak the truth.”

401. “Madmen and children always speak the truth.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.”

402. “Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Here, then, is another proposition: The medium is not the message; the message becomes what the receiver makes of it, applying to it his own codes of reception, which are neither those of the sender nor those of the scholar of communications.”

403. “Here, then, is another proposition: The medium is not the message; the message becomes what the receiver makes of it, applying to it his own codes of reception, which are neither those of the sender nor those of the scholar of communications.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Alamut could be reached only astride eagles.”

404. “Alamut could be reached only astride eagles.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “As the Chinese said, to curse someone: “May you live in an interesting period.”

405. “As the Chinese said, to curse someone: “May you live in an interesting period.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,” he said, “to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.”

406. “There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,” he said, “to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Crecer en las sombras es el privilegio de quien se dispone a conquistar el mundo.”

407. “Crecer en las sombras es el privilegio de quien se dispone a conquistar el mundo.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “In America you don’t say, “Give me another coffee”; you ask for “More coffee”; you don’t say that cigarette A is longer than cigarette B, but that there’s “more” of it, more than you’re used to having, more than you might want, leaving a surplus to throw away – that’s prosperity.”

408. “In America you don’t say, “Give me another coffee”; you ask for “More coffee”; you don’t say that cigarette A is longer than cigarette B, but that there’s “more” of it, more than you’re used to having, more than you might want, leaving a surplus to throw away – that’s prosperity.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “An old saying had it that war is too serious to be left to the military. These days it needs bringing up to date: the world has become too complex to be left to those who used to run it.”

409. “An old saying had it that war is too serious to be left to the military. These days it needs bringing up to date: the world has become too complex to be left to those who used to run it.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists – and so on, to infinity.”

410. “To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists – and so on, to infinity.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone.”

411. “You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “If the book is yours and it does not have antiquarian value, do not hesitate to annotate it. Do not trust those who say that you must respect books. You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone. Even if the book is unmarked, you won’t make much money reselling it to a bookseller, so you may as well leave traces of your ownership.”

412. “If the book is yours and it does not have antiquarian value, do not hesitate to annotate it. Do not trust those who say that you must respect books. You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone. Even if the book is unmarked, you won’t make much money reselling it to a bookseller, so you may as well leave traces of your ownership.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “The Frenchman doesn’t really know what he wants, but knows perfectly well that he doesn’t want what he has. And the only way he knows of saying it is by singing songs.”

413. “The Frenchman doesn’t really know what he wants, but knows perfectly well that he doesn’t want what he has. And the only way he knows of saying it is by singing songs.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “If God existed, he would be a library.”

414. “If God existed, he would be a library.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Jacopo seemed to have forgotten his elegiac mood and competed with Diotallevi in imagining absurd machines – only to discover, each time, that the machines had already been invented.”

415. “Jacopo seemed to have forgotten his elegiac mood and competed with Diotallevi in imagining absurd machines – only to discover, each time, that the machines had already been invented.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “A paradox is a genuine reversal of the commonly accepted point of view, one that presents an unacceptable world, thereby eliciting resistance and rejection, and yet, if we make an effort to understand it, it is one that leads to knowledge; eventually it seems to be witty because it has to be admitted that it is true.”

416. “A paradox is a genuine reversal of the commonly accepted point of view, one that presents an unacceptable world, thereby eliciting resistance and rejection, and yet, if we make an effort to understand it, it is one that leads to knowledge; eventually it seems to be witty because it has to be admitted that it is true.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one – had you had the Opportunity? I.”

417. “Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one – had you had the Opportunity? I.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there’s perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.”

418. “A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there’s perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Bauman notes that a typical feature of the interregnum, once the faith in salvation from above, from the state, or from revolution is gone, is indignation. Such indignation knows what it doesn’t want, but not what it does.”

419. “Bauman notes that a typical feature of the interregnum, once the faith in salvation from above, from the state, or from revolution is gone, is indignation. Such indignation knows what it doesn’t want, but not what it does.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “You are not Proust. Do not write long sentences. If they come into your head, write them, but then break them down. Do not be afraid to repeat the subject twice, and stay away from too many pronouns and subordinate clauses.”

420. “You are not Proust. Do not write long sentences. If they come into your head, write them, but then break them down. Do not be afraid to repeat the subject twice, and stay away from too many pronouns and subordinate clauses.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “There’s a difference between the ‘moderate’ overwhelm of a great bookshop and the infinite overwhelm of the Internet.”

421. “There’s a difference between the ‘moderate’ overwhelm of a great bookshop and the infinite overwhelm of the Internet.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “If there is something paradoxical, in the sense of curious or bizarre, it is that the word paradox has two fairly different meanings: one which is used in logic and philosophy, and the other in rhetoric.”

422. “If there is something paradoxical, in the sense of curious or bizarre, it is that the word paradox has two fairly different meanings: one which is used in logic and philosophy, and the other in rhetoric.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “What is the hidden influence behind the press, behind all the sub-versive movements going on around us? Are there several Powers at work? Or is there one Power, one invisible group directing all the rest – the circle of the real Initiates? – Nesta Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, London, Boswell, 1924, p. 348.”

423. “What is the hidden influence behind the press, behind all the sub-versive movements going on around us? Are there several Powers at work? Or is there one Power, one invisible group directing all the rest – the circle of the real Initiates? – Nesta Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, London, Boswell, 1924, p. 348.”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions...”

424. “World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions...”

— Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Quote: “Sensing that I ought to become more closely involved in political matters, I realized the most attractive news to fabricate would be what these idle minds were expecting, rather than what the newspapers reported as solid fact.”

425. “Sensing that I ought to become more closely involved in political matters, I realized the most attractive news to fabricate would be what these idle minds were expecting, rather than what the newspapers reported as solid fact.”

— Umberto Eco

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