"Thus we have on stage two men, each……" — Umberto Eco
"Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle."
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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 Allusion Quotes
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When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the…
— William James
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional…
— Miriam Schapiro
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The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety…
— Harryette Mullen
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
— Umberto Eco
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
— Jack Vance
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One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature…
— Merrill C. Tenney
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it…
— Amy Waldman
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The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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