"Followers of the occult believe in only what……" — Umberto Eco
"Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned."
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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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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
— Yogi Berra
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what…
— Andrea Bocelli
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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when…
— John Bolton
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I…
— Harlan Coben
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When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
— Jared Sparks
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You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over
— Dessa Darling
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure"…
— Mark Twain
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