Quotes by
Umberto Eco |
1932-2016 , Italian writer
Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known internationally for his 1980 novel “The Name of the Rose”. | 8 quotes | 3,588 visits |
Quotations
| • | Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications. 7 |
| • | Semiotics is, in principle, the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. 6 |
| • | When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. 6 |
| • | Comical is the understanding of the contradiction. Humor is the suspicion for it. 4 |
| • | There is no news in August. 4 |
| • | In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty. 3 |
| • | Translation is the art of failure. 3 |
| • | I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. 3 |
