"This, in fact, is the power of the……" — Umberto Eco
"This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain."
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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 Combining Quotes
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to…
— Alan Alda
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the…
— William James
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Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how…
— Roderick Murchison
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The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are…
— Edward J. Fraughton
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
— Robert Adams
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No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we…
— Stephen Covey
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The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under…
— Larry McDonald
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I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology.…
— Unknown Author
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