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Umberto Eco Quotes

The real hero is always a hero by mistake Picture Quote #1

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor Picture Quote #1

Yesterday’s rose endures in its name, we hold empty names Picture Quote #1

Every great thinker is someone else’s moron Picture Quote #1

A secret is powerful when it is empty Picture Quote #1

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away Picture Quote #1

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We are formed by little scraps of wisdom Picture Quote #1

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action Picture Quote #1

The followers must feel besieged Picture Quote #1

I write what I write Picture Quote #1

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am Picture Quote #1

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person Picture Quote #1

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For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time Picture Quote #1

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective Picture Quote #1

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don’t tell the truth Picture Quote #1

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I’m involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes Picture Quote #1

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it’s possible to understand something about truth Picture Quote #1

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it’s more amusing - ugliness - than beauty Picture Quote #1

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I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul Picture Quote #1

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning Picture Quote #1

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that Picture Quote #1

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information Picture Quote #1

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets Picture Quote #1

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life Picture Quote #1

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Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure Picture Quote #1

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood Picture Quote #1

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that Picture Quote #1

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness Picture Quote #1

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don’t know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us Picture Quote #1

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale Picture Quote #1

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake (Umberto Eco Quotes) A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor (Umberto Eco Quotes) Yesterday’s rose endures in its name, we hold empty names (Umberto Eco Quotes) Every great thinker is someone else’s moron (Umberto Eco Quotes) A secret is powerful when it is empty (Umberto Eco Quotes) The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away (Umberto Eco Quotes) We are formed by little scraps of wisdom (Umberto Eco Quotes) What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action (Umberto Eco Quotes) The followers must feel besieged (Umberto Eco Quotes) I write what I write (Umberto Eco Quotes) Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am (Umberto Eco Quotes) I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person (Umberto Eco Quotes) For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time (Umberto Eco Quotes) We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective (Umberto Eco Quotes) My collection of rare books concerns only books that don’t tell the truth (Umberto Eco Quotes) Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I’m involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes (Umberto Eco Quotes) To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it’s possible to understand something about truth (Umberto Eco Quotes) Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it’s more amusing - ugliness - than beauty (Umberto Eco Quotes) I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul (Umberto Eco Quotes) I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning (Umberto Eco Quotes) I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that (Umberto Eco Quotes) A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information (Umberto Eco Quotes) Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets (Umberto Eco Quotes) That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life (Umberto Eco Quotes) Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure (Umberto Eco Quotes) I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood (Umberto Eco Quotes) Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that (Umberto Eco Quotes) Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness (Umberto Eco Quotes) We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don’t know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us (Umberto Eco Quotes) Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale (Umberto Eco Quotes)

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