Quotes By Umberto Eco

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Translation is the art of failure.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.