El diablo no ES el Principe de la material, el diablo ES la arrogance del spirit, la Fe sin sunrise, la verbal James toad POR la Dada.

— Umberto Eco

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.

— Umberto Eco

Fear prophets, Also, 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

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

— Umberto Eco

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shingle

— Umberto Eco

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

— Umberto Eco

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.

— Umberto Eco

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favors to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

— Umberto Eco

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

— Umberto Eco

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

— Umberto Eco