"but I had also learned that freedom of……" — Umberto Eco
"but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric."
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Umberto Eco
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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 Freedom Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the…
— Julian Assange
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their…
— Margaret Atwood
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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