Umberto Eco Quotes

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

'Flower' is about the sublime.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

The sky is love's muse.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

With wonder, admiration, and reverential awe, one may contemplate the vastness with which he finds himself here surrounded, the perfusion of nature's bounties, and sublimity of scenery, but to describe them, to picture them as they are, is beyond the scope of human capacity.

Good God what a fine sight. I had no conception that there was such a scene in the world, and to find it in my own dominions.

I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.