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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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.
