Quotes by Umberto Eco

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.

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

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Translation is the art of failure.

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

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.

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.