"Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however……" — Umberto Eco
"Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know."
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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 Anything However Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial,…
— Agnes Repplier
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I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join…
— Jeanette Winterson
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To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It…
— John Austin Baker
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul…
— John of the Cross
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It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.
— Roger Ebert
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according…
— Saint Patrick
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I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I…
— Eric Ripert
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People are so good with words that they can make you believe anything...however what matters are their actions
— Abhishek Tiwari
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I had the idea of using Glen Benton on the song before even writing anything. However, instead of writing a…
— Joey Jordison
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The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the…
— St John Of The Cross
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