823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Adiós muñeca, ha sido muy hermoso, pero eras un autómata sin alma.

The taxi driver is someone who spends all day driving in city traffic (an activity that provokes either heart attack or delirium), in constant conflict with other human drivers. Consequently, he is nervous and hates every anthropomorphic creature.

Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the worldthey design and very little about the world they help to construct.

Omnia mundi creaturaquasi liber et pictura nobis estin speculum.

…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...

Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.

315Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn’t be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

Born blind, he could move in that handsome luminous space (yes, he said luminous) of his church, seeing, as he said, the sun with his skin

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.