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You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them. — 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. — Umberto Eco

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want. — Umberto Eco

Every great thinker is someone else's moron. — Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. — Umberto Eco

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich. — Umberto Eco

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. — Umberto Eco

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. — Paul Watson

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

Hitler's one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre. — 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

As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong. — Umberto Eco

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us. — 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

Rather than giving out information someone would be able to check, it's better to limit yourself to insinuation. — Umberto Eco

Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I — Umberto Eco

We've been led astray by rationalist thought," Diotallevi said. "I keep telling you. — Umberto Eco

Crisis sells well. — Umberto Eco

I seal that
which was not to be said in the tomb that I become. — 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

Often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief, — Umberto Eco

Characters migrate — Umberto Eco

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible. — Frances Moore Lappe

We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this. — Umberto Eco

Balance life's stressors with life's pleasures. — Norene Moskalski

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. — Umberto Eco

He fell in love with his golem, found it a source of consolation. Life — Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers. — Umberto Eco

When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author. — 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

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

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? — Umberto Eco

Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly; — Umberto Eco

Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education. — Umberto Eco

So that's why Ivy always used canvas bags . It wasn't because she was especially eco-minded. They were quiet. — Kim Harrison

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. — Umberto Eco

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio. — Umberto Eco

The thing whose address I lost is not the End, it's the Beginning. Not the object to be possessed but the subject that possesses me. Misery — Umberto Eco

There's the rub. The manifesto doesn't say; it leaves you with your mouth watering. But it was important; so important, it had to remain secret. — Umberto Eco

My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly. — Lauren Bush

What's that got to do with anything? — Umberto Eco

It's so beautiful. — Umberto Eco

Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter. — Umberto Eco

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news. — Umberto Eco

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China. — Umberto Eco

I am gripped by an irresistible urge to kill myself, but I know it's the devil tempting me. — Umberto Eco

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. — Umberto Eco

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. — Umberto Eco

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles. — Umberto Eco

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for. — Umberto Eco

That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted. — Umberto Eco

Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. — 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

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names. — Umberto Eco

European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start. — Umberto Eco

Luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language. — 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. — Umberto Eco

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. — Umberto Eco

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. — Umberto Eco

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity. — Umberto Eco

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. — Umberto Eco

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. — Dasha Zhukova

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. — Umberto Eco

someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right. — Umberto Eco

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

I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller. — Alain Ducasse

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. — Umberto Eco

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. — Umberto Eco

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty. — Umberto Eco

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world. — Umberto Eco

The followers must feel besieged. — 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

That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create. — William Powers

Anything was possible if the impossible was true. — Umberto Eco

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco

Simple mechanisms do not love. — Umberto Eco

Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So — Umberto Eco

As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I — Umberto Eco

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. — 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

There is no unemployment in eco-systems — Gunter Pauli

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. — Umberto Eco

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error. — Umberto Eco

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious. — Vivienne Westwood

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. — Umberto Eco

There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict, — Umberto Eco

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds. — E.A. Bucchianeri

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry. — Umberto Eco