Umberto Eco Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
 
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Suggest Revision: The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
 
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Suggest Revision: I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
 
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Suggest Revision: The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
 
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Suggest Revision: There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
 
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Suggest Revision: I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
 
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Suggest Revision: In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
 
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Suggest Revision: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
 
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Suggest Revision: Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
 
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Suggest Revision: The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
 
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