"The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact……" — Umberto Eco
"The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist."
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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 Aided Quotes
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one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
— George Washington
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Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical,…
— Charles Darwin
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Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose…
— Albert Allen Bartlett
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No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself,…
— George Washington
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of…
— Albert Einstein
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Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all…
— Marcel Duchamp
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
— Minna Antrim
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Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they…
— Lewis Browne
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I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful;…
— Charles Darwin
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The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually…
— George Gershwin
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I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a…
— Frank Thomas
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For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though…
— John Calvin
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