The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed.
~ Umberto Eco
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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
~ Albert Camus
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used “to tell” at all.
~ Umberto Eco
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Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
~ Albert Camus
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
~ Umberto Eco
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots.
~ Anton Chekhov
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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.
~ Umberto Eco
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