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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.
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.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
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.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
