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He Quotes by Umberto Eco
- Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding.…
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries,…
- If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
- The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
- When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in…
- Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that…
- Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits.…
- How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people…
- My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of…
- We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would…
- Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle