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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Tag Archives: Umberto Eco
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
~ Umberto Eco
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Listening doesn’t mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don’t know you know.
~ Umberto Eco
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Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
~ Umberto Eco
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A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.
~ Umberto Eco
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A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
~ Umberto Eco
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