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Many Quotes by Umberto Eco
- Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many.…
- For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you…
- Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be…
- Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational…
- Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the…
- Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after…
- Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is…
- Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at…
- A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
- Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
- The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that…
- After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is…
- Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
More Many Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson