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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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.
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.