"There is nothing more difficult to define than…" — Umberto Eco
"There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism."
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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 Aphorism Quotes
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one of 75 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or,…
— Ronald Fisher
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the…
— Peter D. Mitchell
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On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text…
— Robert Bellarmine
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Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms…
— Noah Lukeman
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere…
— F. H. Bradley
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
— James Geary
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If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his…
— Milan Kundera
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
— Mason Cooley
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
— Paul Eldridge
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