More Quotes by Umberto Eco
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 problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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 real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
