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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
— 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
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
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter ... one must paint its atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
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
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
— Umberto Boccioni
These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
— Umberto Boccioni
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
— Umberto Eco
We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.
— Umberto Eco
The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.
— Umberto Eco
I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.
— Umberto Guidoni
... the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.
— Umberto Eco
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
— 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
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The followers must feel besieged.
— Umberto Eco
In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
— Umberto Eco
Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted.
— Umberto Eco
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also ... its problem.
— Umberto Eco
No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
— Umberto Eco
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
— Umberto Eco
The library is testimony to truth and to error,
— Umberto Eco
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
— Umberto Eco
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco
The mobile phone ... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
— Umberto Eco
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
— Umberto Eco
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
— Umberto Eco
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
— Umberto Eco
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
— 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.
— Umberto Eco
Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
— Umberto Eco
...some people here seem to have stepped through a time-warp -- old Romans being recycled with a mere change of costume.
— Umberto Bartolomeo
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
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
— Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
— Umberto Eco
Love forbids you not to love.
— Umberto Giordano
...loafing in the easy chair of one's body.
— Umberto Bartolomeo
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
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
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
— Umberto Eco
All art critics are useless or harmful.
— Umberto Boccioni
Anything was possible if the impossible was true.
— Umberto Eco
But chance has a taste for conspiracy.
— Umberto Eco
Books always speak of other books.
— Umberto Eco
