A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
- Umberto Eco Quote

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

Fear prophets 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 Quote

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 Quote

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
- Umberto Eco Quote

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
- Umberto Eco Quote

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.
- Umberto Eco Quote

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
- Umberto Eco Quote

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco Quote

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
- Umberto Eco Quote

Translation is the art of failure.
- Umberto Eco Quote