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More Quotes by 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.
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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.
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.
