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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
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 problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
