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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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.
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.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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.
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.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
