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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
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.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.
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.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
To survive, you must tell stories.
