Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image ““We don’t see them, but, invisible, they act all around us.”” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.” — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“If people can´t see us, it doesn´t mean that they are blind, but we are invisible.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
“See you later, Al. Watch out for the thestrals.” “I thought they were invisible? You said they were invisible! ” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“We don't usually wish we were invisible unless, for some extreme reason, we were noticed first.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“We are not invisible because the world does not see us. We become invisible when we can no longer see ourselves.” — Holden Robinson 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 and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
“…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 of organized information to be fed in. The success of a metaphor is a function of the sociocultural format of the interpreting subjects; encyclopedia. In this perspective, metaphors are produced solely on the basis of a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
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 for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
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
