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.
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most bac… - Umberto Eco
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most bac…
- Umberto Eco
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. - Umberto Eco
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.
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. - Umberto Eco
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.
Love is wiser than wisdom. - Umberto Eco
Love is wiser than wisdom.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come. - Umberto Eco
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot. - Umberto Eco
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four. - Umberto Eco
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. - Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. - Umberto Eco
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
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