Umberto Eco Quotes
"What is love? Love is the opposite of fear.""To be really positive and to be cruel at the same time is a terrible thing, luckily, it is impossible to do both. ""When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.""The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.""Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.""Perhaps I am old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really goes on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to follow the instructions of the professionals across generations and the world and plot to do a little harm as possible.""Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.""What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?""A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.""Fear prophets 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.""The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.""When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.""The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety but also of variety in unity.""We are always pursued by our origins. ""One can be a saint in an evil world, but it is quite difficult for an ordinary man to be honest in that way""Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great""If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot""Translation is the art of failure""The function of the scholar is to destroy myths""Sometimes you say things with a smiley face when you're really saying them with a frowny face"