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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.
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.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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.
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.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
To survive, you must tell stories.
