"We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." — Umberto Eco
"We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."
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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 Formed Quotes
This quote is filed under Formed Quotes,
one of 849 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
— Aristotle
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
— Teresa of Avila
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as…
— Saint Basil
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
— William Blake
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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its…
— David Bowie
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a…
— Alan Alda
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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it…
— Judith Butler
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
— Lord Byron
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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