Umberto Eco Quotes

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
Libraries can take the place of God.
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
Our life is full of empty space.
Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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Umberto Eco
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05 January, 1932
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19 February, 2016
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