"A mystic is a hysteric who has met……" — Umberto Eco
"A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor."
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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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 Confessor Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that…
— John Harington
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It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain…
— Bertrand Russell
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
— John of the Cross
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Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the…
— Joseph Addison
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Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
— George Herbert
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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe
— Ellen Hopkins
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A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us…
— Henri Nouwen
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When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory…
— Terry Goodkind
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