Umberto eco biography book quotes

“Then why do you want to know?"

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
&#; Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books.

Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves.

28+ quotes from The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”
&#; Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“What is love?

There is nothing in the world, neither ma