Umberto Eco Quotes - Famous Quotes by Umberto Eco
Born: 1932-01-05
Died: 0000-00-00
Umberto Eco Biography
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
- Umberto Eco
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But now 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.
- Umberto Eco
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I felt like poisoning a monk.
- Umberto Eco
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I felt like poisoning a monk.
- Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
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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.
- Umberto Eco
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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.
- Umberto Eco
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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.
- Umberto Eco
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
- Umberto Eco
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
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