Umberto Eco Quotes

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.