Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure.

art


Umberto Eco

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

courage


Umberto Eco

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

death


Umberto Eco

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

dreams


Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure.

failure


Umberto Eco

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

fear


Umberto Eco

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.

fear


Umberto Eco

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.

history


Umberto Eco

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

humor


Umberto Eco

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.

learning


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