"Then why do you want to know?" "Because……" — Umberto Eco
"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."
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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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More Consist Quotes
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
— Louise Brooks
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
— Coco Chanel
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can…
— Cesar Chavez
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
— Unknown Author
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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