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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
To survive, you must tell stories.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
