823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.