eco Quotes

“Translation is the art of failure.”

“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.”

“From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.”

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”

“The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.”

“Translation is the art of failure.”

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”

“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.”

“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.”

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”