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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
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.
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.
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.
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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.
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.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
