Quotes by Eco, Umberto

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and t >>

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. >>

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of i >>

Quotations about America

The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievement >>

In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he >>

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are >>

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

Eco, Umberto