"The Devil is not the Prince of Matter;……" — Umberto Eco
"The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came."
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Umberto Eco
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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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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
— Barbara De Angelis
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One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and…
— Jeremy Irons
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A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a…
— Edward Abbey
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Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its…
— Unknown Author
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Happiness always returns to port . . .
— Unknown Author
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We need the dark to appreciate the light. And the light always returns.
— Cheryl Richardson
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Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the…
— Mitch Albom
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For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not,…
— Jane Lindskold
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This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he…
— Gustave Meyrink
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I often wonder, Did I force Alice down the Rabbit Hole? Or did I inspire her to do so? Am…
— Eric Nickel
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Love is not a game that you play and forget about it. What you do to others always returns back…
— Hemantsmarty
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Whenever you are going through bad time and problems. Just remember after a dark period, the light always returns.
— Anurag Prakash Ray
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