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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
