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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. — Umberto Eco

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

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism. — 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

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

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

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

A complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm. — 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

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. — Umberto Eco

Often books speak of books. — Umberto Eco

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. — Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief — 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

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. — Umberto Eco

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

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace. — Umberto Eco

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

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

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty . — Umberto Eco

[ ... ] The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true. — Umberto Eco

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 Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. — Umberto Eco

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor. — 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. — Umberto Eco

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

But I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco

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

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, — 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

Beauty is boring because it is predictable. — Umberto Eco

The mobile phone ... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. — Umberto Eco

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The followers must feel besieged. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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