"Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the……" — Umberto Eco
"Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want."
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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 Additions Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars…
— Benjamin Franklin
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had…
— John Joseph Griffin
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and…
— Joseph Black
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as…
— William Shakespeare
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage…
— Charles Darwin
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just…
— Willy Ley
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The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate…
— Dave Gibbons
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Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United…
— Ambrose Bierce
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According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are…
— Daniel Yergin
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...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief…
— Pope Clement XIII
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