Umberto Eco Quotes

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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.
Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
We like lists because we don't want to die.
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Umberto Eco
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05 January, 1932
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19 February, 2016
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