"The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem." — Umberto Eco
"The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem."
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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 Grandeur Quotes
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one of 236 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
— Matthew Arnold
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in…
— Albert Camus
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by…
— Jean Cocteau
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
— Charles Sumner
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And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit.…
— Jonathan Kozol
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War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true…
— Charles Sumner
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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