I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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