"It takes a little time, but the pleasures……" — Umberto Eco

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— Umberto Eco

275 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads… — Russell Baker
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never… — Josh Billings
Maintain an attitude of anticipating success! — Tae Yun Kim
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his… — Sun Tzu
You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place… — Esther Hicks
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [… — Unknown Author
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it… — Ada Lovelace
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has… — Daniel Dennett
He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened. — Graeme Le Saux
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the… — Jeff Cooper
The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest. — Ray Charles

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