"The comic is the perception of the opposite;……" — Umberto Eco

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."

— Umberto Eco

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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco

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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 Comic Quotes

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I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things… — Rowan Atkinson
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
Life is tragic but it's equally comic. — John Banville
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays. — Scott Adams
I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake… — Roseanne Barr
I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. — Lynda Barry
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each… — Henri Bergson
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. — Mayim Bialik
As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic. — Lewis Black

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