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Umberto Eco Quotes & Sayings

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21 entries tagged including 12 subtopics.
Last updated Oct 2023

Umberto Eco Topics

Life
Humor
Perception
Books
Sports
Reassurance
World
Order
Evil
Religion
Dogma

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People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

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Religion quotes

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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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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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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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Reassurance quotes

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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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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Translation is the art of failure.

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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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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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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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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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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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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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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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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

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