"A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures……" — Umberto Eco

"A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."

— Umberto Eco

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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco has 275 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…
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…
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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…
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…

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More Atheist Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism… — Joseph Addison
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a… — Tony Blair

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