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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
To survive, you must tell stories.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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.
