Facts Quotes by Umberto Eco

14 Facts quotes by Umberto Eco

Eco’s essays often drift into theory, but this brief set of fourteen facts highlights his knack for precise observation. It’s a useful starter for readers who want to see the concrete side of his scholarly voice.

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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

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

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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can…

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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from…

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True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to…

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One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact…

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You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s…

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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by…

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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose…

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“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close…

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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he…

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The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied…

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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