"Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a……" — Umberto Eco
"Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types."
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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 Components Quotes
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one of 141 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are…
— Norman Borlaug
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working…
— Kim Cattrall
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
— Deepak Chopra
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Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
— Unknown Author
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
— Tim Ferriss
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Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs,…
— Atul Gawande
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I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death,…
— Stephen Hawking
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of…
— Nicholas A. Christakis
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The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting…
— Rajneesh
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Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
— Denis Waitley
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The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all…
— Thomas Berry
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