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Umberto Eco Quotes

Umberto Eco quotes

Italian Novelist, Philosopher January 5, 1932

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Umberto Eco quote: "The real hero is always a hero by mistake."
The real hero is always a hero by mistake. Umberto Eco
Then why do you want to know?"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little..."
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
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. Umberto Eco
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not..."
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice,..."
What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game. Umberto Eco
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. Umberto Eco
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection? not an invitation for hypnosis. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple..."
As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong. Umberto Eco
Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types. Umberto Eco
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. Umberto Eco
I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason,..."
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! Umberto Eco
And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly. Umberto Eco

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