24 ordspråk av Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
 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. |
| A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. |
| Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. |
| 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. |
| I felt like poisoning a monk. |
| 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 would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. |
| If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity |
| Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. |
| Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. |
| The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. |
| The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. |
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