"The real hero is always a hero by…" — Umberto Eco

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake."

— 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 Hero Quotes

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but… — Arthur Ashe
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
I'm bad at picking heroes. — Margaret Atwood
No hero is mortal till he dies. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. — Kevin Bacon
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long… — John Adams
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's… — Joe Barton
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. — Felix Baumgartner

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