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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
— Umberto Eco
After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?
— Umberto Eco
Love is wiser than wisdom.
— Umberto Eco
Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.
— Umberto Eco
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
— Umberto Eco
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
— Umberto Eco
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
— Umberto Eco
We like lists because we don't want to die.
— Umberto Eco
Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ...
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours. — Umberto Eco
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours. — Umberto Eco
Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.
— Umberto Eco
Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I
— Umberto Eco
Crisis sells well.
— Umberto Eco
when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.
— Umberto Eco
Characters migrate
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We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.
— Umberto Eco
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also ... its problem.
— Umberto Eco
Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted.
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Often books speak of books.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
— Umberto Eco
I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.
— Umberto Eco
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
— Umberto Eco
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
— Umberto Eco
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn't like to watch television. I'm just the only one who confesses
— Umberto Eco
The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.
— Umberto Eco
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
— Umberto Eco
Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one - had you had the Opportunity? I
— Umberto Eco
If the eye could see the demons that people the universe, existence would be impossible. - Talmud, Berakhot, 6
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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
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[ ... ] The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.
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What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.
— Umberto Eco
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man! — Umberto Eco
the often perverse wisdom of man! — Umberto Eco
... the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.
— Umberto Eco
when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;
— Umberto Eco
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
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Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
— Umberto Eco
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources
Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco
Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
— Umberto Eco
The library is testimony to truth and to error,
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No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
— Umberto Eco
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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The mobile phone ... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
— Umberto Eco
The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
— Umberto Eco
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
— Umberto Eco
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
— Umberto Eco
European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start.
— Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of failure.
— Umberto Eco
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
— Umberto Eco
Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.
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Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
— Umberto Eco
Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;
— Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
— Umberto Eco
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
— Umberto Eco
As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
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But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.
— Umberto Eco
What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?
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Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly;
— Umberto Eco
The followers must feel besieged.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
— Umberto Eco
Anything was possible if the impossible was true.
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Simple mechanisms do not love.
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Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So
— Umberto Eco
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
— Umberto Eco
I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt.
— Umberto Eco
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
— Umberto Eco
But chance has a taste for conspiracy.
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It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house.
— Umberto Eco
Books always speak of other books.
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