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With all of its defects, the ...

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

"You cannot believe what you ...

"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Every thing thinks, but accor...

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I started to write [The Name ...

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I write stories about conspir...

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

There are no stories without ...

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I'm always fascinated by lose...

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Our most noted satirists are ...

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expos?.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Ugliness is more inventive th...

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The print does not always hav...

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

"Then we are living in a plac...

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The belief that time is a lin...

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I returned to the courtyard a...

I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day approached the completion of its first half) was becoming damp and misty. Heavy clouds moved from the north and were invading the top of the mountain, covering it with a light brume. It seemed to be fog, and perhaps fog was also rising from the ground, but at that altitude it was difficult to distinguish the mists that rose from below and those that come down from above. It was becoming hard to discern the bulk of the more distant buildings.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

And when someone suggests you...

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I seem to know all the cliche...

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

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Memory is a stopgap for human...

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

We know that sensory phenomen...

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.

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In other words, although I do...

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I am an old consumer of paper...

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I am a professor who writes n...

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

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