Top 10 Famous Quotes by Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was an Italian novelist, semiotician, and academic renowned for his erudition and interdisciplinary approach. His masterpiece, "The Name of the Rose" (1980), blended historical fiction with mystery, achieving international acclaim. Eco's works delve into complex themes such as semiotics and medieval studies, with notable novels including "Foucault's Pendulum" (1988) and "Baudolino" (2000). Beyond fiction, he made significant contributions to semiotics through works like "A Theory of Semiotics" (1976). Eco's writing, characterized by intellectual depth and rich cultural references, continues to influence literature and academia, solidifying his legacy as a versatile intellectual of the 20th century.

Top 10 Famous Quotes by Umberto Eco

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

2. "But now 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."
— Umberto Eco

3. "The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?"
— Umberto Eco

4. "Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
— Umberto Eco

5. "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."
— Umberto Eco

6. "Translation is the art of failure."
— Umberto Eco

7. "The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
— Umberto Eco

8. "Beauty is boring because it is predictable."
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9. "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
— Umberto Eco

10. "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."
— Umberto Eco