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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Italian writer and critic

Lived from: 1932 - 2016

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagItaly

Born: 5 january 1932 Died: 19 february 2016

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  • Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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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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  • The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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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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  • 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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  • The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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  • The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007)
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  • The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 527
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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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  • The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
    Travels in Hyperreality (2014) 133
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  • The truth is an anagram of an anagram.
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  • There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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  • There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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  • There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
    On Literature (2005) 347
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  • To survive, you must tell stories.
    The Island of the Day Before (2006) 221
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  • Translation is the art of failure.
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  • We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
    (2015)
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  • We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
    (2009)
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  • We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 120
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  • When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 615
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