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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
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.
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 real hero is always a hero by mistake.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
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.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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.
