823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

It is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools.

Thus God knows the world, because He conceived it in His mind, as if from the outside, before it was created, and we do not know its rule, because we live inside it, having found it already made.

The Fundamental Principle that governs – or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. – Shakespeare, King Lear, III, iv.

If somebody writes a book and doesn’t care for the survival of that book, he’s an imbecile.

You spend a life seeking the Opportunity, without realizing that the decisive moment, the moment that justifies birth and death, has already passed. It will not return, but it was – full, dazzling, generous as every revelation.

Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.

No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone.

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false. But I was there that day, so now I am where I am.