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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
To survive, you must tell stories.
