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Fact Quotes by Umberto Eco
- The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.…
- The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
- 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…
- A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that…
- The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common…
- This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of…
- True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
- Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
- 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,…
- You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden