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Umberto Eco

I am firmly of the opinion th...

I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes
Umberto Eco

Where else? I belong to a los...

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

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Umberto Eco

I think that at a certain age...

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes
Umberto Eco

Every man is obsessed by the ...

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

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Umberto Eco

[I am fascinated by stupidity...

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes
Umberto Eco

If you want to become a man o...

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes
Umberto Eco

All poets write bad poetry. B...

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

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Umberto Eco

To establish what is true is ...

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes
Umberto Eco

For many years I have devoted...

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

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Umberto Eco

Today I realize that many rec...

Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes
Umberto Eco

When we traded the results of...

When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

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Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immort...

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes
Umberto Eco

If western culture is shown t...

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

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Umberto Eco

This, in fact, is the power o...

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

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Umberto Eco

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudo...

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

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Umberto Eco

The postmodern reply to the m...

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

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Umberto Eco

For what I saw at the abbey t...

For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics where these do not exist, but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred for the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the Devil. God preserve us.

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Umberto Eco

Two cliches make us laugh. A ...

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

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Umberto Eco

I don't know, maybe we're alw...

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

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Umberto Eco

Is it possible to say "It was...

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

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