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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
To survive, you must tell stories.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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.
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 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.
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.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
