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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
Love is wiser than wisdom.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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.
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.
