"I suspect that there is no serious scholar……" — Umberto Eco
"I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses"
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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 Confesses Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get…
— Linus Pauling
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
— Edward Gibbon
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and…
— Julian Coolidge
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that…
— Francis Quarles
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than…
— Joan D. Chittister
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The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
— David Wilkerson
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It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and…
— Pope Francis
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment,…
— Ambrose
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The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is…
— Pope Francis
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Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who…
— Asa Gray
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