More From Umberto Eco
- "A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
- "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."
- "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
More In Positive
- "Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions."― Johannes Stark
- "So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive."― Petra Nemcova
- "Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough."― Sextus Propertius