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Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world. ― Umberto Eco

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Practical Power

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

― Umberto Eco

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.

― Umberto Eco

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

― Umberto Eco

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

― Umberto Eco

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

― Umberto Eco

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.

― Umberto Eco

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

― Umberto Eco

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

― Umberto Eco

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

― Umberto Eco

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.

― Umberto Eco

To survive, you must tell stories.

― Umberto Eco

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.

― Umberto Eco

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.

― Umberto Eco

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.

― Umberto Eco

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

― Umberto Eco

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

― Umberto Eco

Love is wiser than wisdom.

― 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.

― Umberto Eco

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

― Umberto Eco

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