I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over.
~ Umberto Eco
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I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over.
~ Umberto Eco
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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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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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The highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of ‘false consciousness’ always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its greatest.
~ György Lukács
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Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
~ György Lukács
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Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge
to be at home everywhere.
~ György Lukács
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The dialectical concept of reality as a social process dissolves the fetishistic forms produced by the capitalist mode of production and enables us to see them as mere illusions which are not less illusory for being seen to be necessary.
~ György Lukács
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