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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Love is wiser than wisdom.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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.
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.
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.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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.
