Umberto Eco Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Lying, Want

  "Umberto Eco: 'People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Past, Self

  Umberto Eco (1986). “Faith in Fakes: Essays”, Harvill Secker

• Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Ideas, Should

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.209, HMH

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