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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
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.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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.