Allusion Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image “Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allusion Heart Made Religion Spirit Tests
Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit arises purely… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God — Bible Copy Share Image
“When we put ourselves in a position to feel the Spirit and receive repeated confirmations from heaven, we also put ourselves in a position… — Sheri Dew Copy Share Image
Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“Watch through the clarity of your mind ,the clear essence of your soul and judge accordingly. Your Inner Voices state the Truth and only… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
“too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5” — James K.A. Smith 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
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it. — K. Flay Copy Share Image
“So,' I said, partly to Magda, partly to myself, 'Rema left Argentina with this An-a-to-le person.' I adopted the four-syllable pronunciation with confidence, feeling… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.” — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change… — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
