Quotes by Umberto Eco

The following are quotes from Umberto Eco:

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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.

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

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