823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Never trust originality.

In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false information, one absolute truth is the fact that Superman is Clark Kent. All the rest is always open to debate.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection – not an invitation for hypnosis.

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don’t tell the truth.

I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.

For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called “kosmos,” that is to say ornate, since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members. And praised be our Creator who, as the Scriptures say, has decreed all things in number, weight, and measure.

I’d lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there’s always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

Ma gavte la nata.

He fell in love with his golem, found it a source of consolation. Life.