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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
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.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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.
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.
To survive, you must tell stories.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.