823 Quotes by Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.

He is or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.