"Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom……" — Umberto Eco

"Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed."

— Umberto Eco

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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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More Flies Quotes

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it… — William Blake
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter… — Mark Burnett
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I… — Mariah Carey
A closed mouth catches no flies. — Miguel de Cervantes
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. — Yasser Arafat
Time flies when you are anxious! — Maria Bamford
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine… — Juvenal
The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll… — Graig Nettles
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. — Hannah More
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it… — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and… — Tommy Lasorda

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