Quotes by Umberto Eco - AI Generated Quotes

Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure.

-Umberto Eco

art

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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courage

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

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death

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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dreams

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

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dreams

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

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experience

Translation is the art of failure.

-Umberto Eco

failure

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

-Umberto Eco

fear

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.

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fear

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

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history

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

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humor

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

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learning

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

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nature

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

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success

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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truth

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

-Umberto Eco

truth

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

-Umberto Eco

truth

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.

-Umberto Eco

truth

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Translation is the art of failure.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

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.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

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