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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
To survive, you must tell stories.
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.
