Umberto Eco Quotes

“Absence is to love as wind to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

topic:love

“love can harm the lover when it is excessive.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:love

“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:truth religion

“The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:truth evil

“learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:knowledge learning

“it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:fear

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

topic:wisdom teaching

“Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:words

“the order of things must not be transformed, even if we must fervently hope for its transformation.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:change

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:books meaning

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