"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but……" — Umberto Eco
"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."
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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 Altered Quotes
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one of 257 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
— Francis Bacon
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I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something…
— John Bolton
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
— Emily Bronte
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily…
— Abdallah II
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A…
— Harlan Coben
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Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and…
— Oswald Chambers
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is…
— Douglas MacArthur
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if…
— Bernie Siegel
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Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little…
— George Johnson
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