Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I donโt like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I donโt like it.
Umberto EcoEven today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto EcoIf photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Umberto Eco"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."
Umberto EcoI dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?
Umberto Eco