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Umberto Eco Quotes

Umberto Eco quotes

Italian Novelist, Philosopher January 5, 1932

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Umberto Eco quote: "As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of..."
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. Umberto Eco
But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a virgin in the forest, so that the animal, catching her most chaste odor, will go and lay its head in her lap, offering itself as prey to the hunters' snares."So it is said, Adso. But many tend to believe that it's a fable, an invention of the pagans."What a disappointment," I said. "I would have liked to encounter one, crossing a... Umberto Eco
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of..."
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in..."
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Umberto Eco
But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my lip and what do I do? I write. But bad literature brings no redemption. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us..."
By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world. Umberto Eco
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. Umberto Eco
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death."
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but..."
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. Umberto Eco
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco quote: "Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable..."
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. Umberto Eco
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means... Umberto Eco
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness. Umberto Eco

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