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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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.
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
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.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
