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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
— Umberto Eco
After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?
— Umberto Eco
Love is wiser than wisdom.
— Umberto Eco
Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.
— Umberto Eco
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
— Umberto Eco
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
— Umberto Eco
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
— Umberto Eco
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
— Umberto Eco
We like lists because we don't want to die.
— Umberto Eco
Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ...
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours. — Umberto Eco
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours. — Umberto Eco
Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.
— Umberto Eco
Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I
— Umberto Eco
Crisis sells well.
— Umberto Eco
when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.
— Umberto Eco
Characters migrate
— Umberto Eco
We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.
— Umberto Eco
Balance life's stressors with life's pleasures.
— Norene Moskalski
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
— Umberto Eco
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
— Umberto Eco
Your little eco-friendly fairy tale ain't going to happen. This was farming land long before it was cute-house land.
— Christopher Bollen
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
— Umberto Eco
when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;
— Umberto Eco
The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.
— Umberto Eco
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
— Umberto Eco
... the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.
— Umberto Eco
I've taken Eco drink everyday for a year and I can tell you that it works!!!! I definitely can tell when I miss a day ...
— Robert Johnson
The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.
— William McDonough
But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.
— Umberto Eco
What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?
— Umberto Eco
Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly;
— Umberto Eco
The library is testimony to truth and to error,
— Umberto Eco
[My guilty pleasure is a] deep, eco-unfriendly, hot bath. Preferably with a glass of champagne and someone sitting on the loo seat gossiping.
— Prue Leith
That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
— Umberto Eco
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
— Umberto Eco
The mobile phone ... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
— Umberto Eco
Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted.
— Umberto Eco
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources
Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco
Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also ... its problem.
— Umberto Eco
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
— Umberto Eco
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
— Umberto Eco
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
— Umberto Eco
I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.
— Umberto Eco
Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
— Umberto Eco
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
— Umberto Eco
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
— Umberto Eco
European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start.
— Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of failure.
— Umberto Eco
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
— Umberto Eco
Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.
— Umberto Eco
The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
— Umberto Eco
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
— Umberto Eco
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
— Dasha Zhukova
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
— Umberto Eco
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
— Umberto Eco
Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;
— Umberto Eco
I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.
— Alain Ducasse
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
— Umberto Eco
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
— Umberto Eco
The followers must feel besieged.
— Umberto Eco
Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one - had you had the Opportunity? I
— Umberto Eco
That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.
— William Powers
Anything was possible if the impossible was true.
— Umberto Eco
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
— Umberto Eco
Simple mechanisms do not love.
— Umberto Eco
Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So
— Umberto Eco
As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
— Umberto Eco
I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt.
— Umberto Eco
There is no unemployment in eco-systems
— Gunter Pauli
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
— Umberto Eco
But chance has a taste for conspiracy.
— Umberto Eco
The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
— Vivienne Westwood
It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house.
— Umberto Eco
Books always speak of other books.
— Umberto Eco