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Umberto Eco Quotes - Page 15

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For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

Mind, Machines, World

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Instruments, Thrown

Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

Mean, Cooking, Littles

Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

Pride, Order, Omnipotence

Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

War, Fire, Flames

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

Eden, Dimensions, Ethical

Umberto Eco (2002). “Five Moral Pieces”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

Stars, Believe, Sky

Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.443, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Passion, Aluminum, Nostalgia

Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Beautiful, Men, Touched

Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.301, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

Morning, Reading, Paper

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

Writing, Poet, Elizabethan

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

Character, Sometimes

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Thinking, Amusing, Certain

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

Trying, Purpose, World

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

Thinking, Feelings, Philosopher

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

Character, Interesting, Way

Source: www.npr.org

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

Character, Writing, Facts

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

Book, Telling The Truth, Concern

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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