Umberto Eco Quotes


I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys.


Citations

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum. Translated by William Weaver, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
  • Born: January 5, 1932
  • Died: February 19, 2016
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Novelist

Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and novelist. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory, and Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.