« All Great Height Quotes
·
Umberto Eco's Page
Great Height Quotes by Umberto Eco
1 Great Height quote by Umberto Eco
More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 276 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
-
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
-
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
-
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
-
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
-
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
-
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
-
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
-
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
-
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
-
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
-
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
See all 276 quotes by Umberto Eco »
More Great Height Quotes
Popular Great Height quotes from across the collection:
-
"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have…
— Umberto Eco
-
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
-
Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
-
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
— Edward Burnett Tylor
-
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
— Eddie Izzard
-
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems…
— Franz Kafka
-
He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound…
— Gustave Flaubert
-
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They…
— Barbara Kingsolver
-
My idea is worth more than your negativity. My hard work is worth more than your words. My integrity is worth more…
— Jeremy Limn
-
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back Struck from a great height By someone who should know better than that
— Florence And The Machine
-
In the presence of wind even dust achieve great height but when mixed with water they turn into mud........... SO CHOOSE UR…
— Salman
See all Great Height Quotes »
Browse Umberto Eco Quotes by Category