"Human beings are religious animals." — Umberto Eco
"Human beings are religious animals."
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Umberto Eco
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
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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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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on…
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
— David Attenborough
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual…
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I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how…
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I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I…
— David Attenborough
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware…
— David Attenborough
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the…
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