Umberto Eco Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Hammers, Purpose

• American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

  Umberto Eco

  Spring, Coffee, Humble

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

  Umberto Eco

  Purpose, Stories, World

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

  Umberto Eco

  Strong, Rome, People

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

  Umberto Eco

  Trying, Purpose, World

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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