True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Umberto EcoUgliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
Umberto EcoYes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
Umberto EcoEven today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto EcoIt was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone elseโs house.
Umberto EcoFor what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics where these do not exist, but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred for the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the Devil. God preserve us.
Umberto Eco