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Umberto Eco Inspirational Quotes (339)

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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
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The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
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Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.
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For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.
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One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.
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The good of a book lies in its being read.
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I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
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...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).
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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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They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose.
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.
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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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To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning. So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
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Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
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