Umberto Eco quotes We have 192 quotes for this author ✍️

Author Quotes

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exis…

Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library love

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum philosophy religion theology truth

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were …

Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose inquisition torture truth

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hopin…

Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before deception games knowledge truth

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemno…

Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose beauty homer iliad justification mythology

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the …

Umberto Eco A Theory of Semiotics lies semiotics truth

I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire …

Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose seeking suspicion truth

Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.

Umberto Eco Numele trandafirului good power truth

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum fathers parenting wisdom

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beaut…

Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before beauty death irreligion life religion

Similar crossword clues

Umberto Eco novel 78.57%
"Umberto D" director 75.86%
Umberto Author 72.00%
Umberto the author 68.97%
Umberto of Italy 66.67%
Umberto the writer 62.07%
Umberto and kin 61.54%
"Numero Zero" author Eco 60.61%
Under, to Umberto 59.26%
Author Umberto et al. 58.06%
Author Umberto 56.00%
Writer Umberto 56.00%
Our, to Umberto 56.00%
Writher umberto 53.85%
This, to Umberto 53.85%
Novelist Umberto 51.85%
Umberto Giordano's "Fedora," e.g. 50.00%
Author Umberto and kin 48.48%
"The ___ of the Rose": Eco 46.67%
Be eco-friendly 46.15%

✏️ Suggest new clue

Related word tools

Unscramble UMBERTO 7-letter words that start with U 7-letter words that end in O 7-letter words containing MB 7-letter words containing TO 7-letter words with U and M

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

?

E

?

E

?

N

Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NEE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

59 +1

New Crossword Suggestion