Umberto Eco Quotes - Page 2

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• I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

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  Book, Intelligent, Assuming

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• The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

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  Crazy, Giving, Problem

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• I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

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  Starting Over, Missing, Youth

  "On the Disadvantages and Advantages of Death". 2004.

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

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  Dream, Atheist, Scripture

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.468, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Translation is the art of failure.

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  Art, Translations

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• There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

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  Writing, Shopping, Lists

  Umberto Eco (2005). “On Literature”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

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  Attitude, Origin Of Life, Fundamentals

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• We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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  Littles, Scrap

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

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  Book, Inquiry, Made

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

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  Book, Hammers, Purpose

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• I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

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  Good Morning, Book, Smell

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• Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

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  Inspirational, Knowing, Intelligence

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

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  Childhood, Adults

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• For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

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  Home, Enemy, Doorstep

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A secret is powerful when it is empty.

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  Powerful, Secret, Empty

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interviewed with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. February 20, 2016.

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• The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

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  Waiting, Asking, Elements

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

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  Love, Heart, Men

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

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  Pain, Writing, Sadness

  "Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

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  Character, Knights, Secret

  "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

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• True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

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  Ideas, Facts, Individual

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

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  Opinion, Lost

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• Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

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  Boring, Predictable

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• When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

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  Dance

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• 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.

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  Writing, Remember, Poet

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• We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

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  Sweet, Book, Decay

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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