"Every European goes on the streets and sees……" — Umberto Eco
"Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis."
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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 Churches Quotes
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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
— Tony Campolo
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Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
— Tupac Shakur
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Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.
— Lester Roloff
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was…
— Carl Sagan
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We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church.…
— Jim Cymbala
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What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings…
— Jim Cymbala
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In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear…
— Jim Cymbala
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Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
— Brooks Atkinson
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
— Geronimo
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What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin,…
— Dick Gregory
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