Arthur Doktor

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Then why do you want to know?"

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
― Umberto Eco

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession