Umberto Eco

Thursday, 20 February 2025

Famous quotes by Umberto Eco:

"Translation is the art of failure."

"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"

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."

"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."

"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 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."

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else"

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him."

"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, ''I love you madly,'' because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, ''As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.''"

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."

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How Alessandro Giardino Found His First Novel in Caravaggio’s ‘The Seven Acts of Mercy’

New York Observer 17 Feb 2025

Courtesy the publisher ... He wrote in his book, Naples and Florence ... Sign Up ... SEE ALSO ... It’s amusing that several critics have likened my writing to a mix of Michael Cunningham and Umberto Eco. I’ve always found Eco’s novels too pedantic for my taste.

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''ETERNAL FASCISM'', UMBERTO ECO, HARARI; the 'KINDERLADEN' SCHOOLS... [WELLHEREWEGO]

Bitchute 11 Feb 2025

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In search of Pico della Mirandola, the quintessential Renaissance Man

The Spectator 11 Feb 2025

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books. Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (2018); A History of Water. Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History (2022). autodidact catnip ... Think non-fiction Umberto Eco ... .

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The secret to being happy at any age | Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail 08 Feb 2025

THE LIVE-FOREVER 20s ... I fell in love a second time ... Every other decade had its peak moments – the birth of my daughters; Harry Kane scoring the winner against Arsenal; finishing the London Marathon; interviewing the great Italian writer Umberto Eco ... .

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Reworldling Humanity: E.B. White’s Magnificent 1943 Response to a Politician Who Wanted to Make the ...

Brainpickings 03 Feb 2025

On September 11, 1943, E.B ... The Pacific Ocean, said Clarence Budington Kelland firmly, must become an American lake ... White at work ... E.B ... Art from The Three Astronauts — Umberto Eco’s vintage semiotic children’s book about world peace ... .

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Chanel and Armani celebrate big milestones at Paris couture week

CNN 31 Jan 2025

Haute couture is an enigma to most ... Among Michele’s influences were Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 black comedy-drama film “Barry Lyndon”, Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel “Orlando” and Umberto Eco’s 2009 literary anthology “The Infinity of Lists” ... .

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How Alessandro Giardino Found His First Novel in Caravaggio’s ‘The Seven Acts of Mercy’

''ETERNAL FASCISM'', UMBERTO ECO, HARARI; the 'KINDERLADEN' SCHOOLS... [WELLHEREWEGO]

In search of Pico della Mirandola, the quintessential Renaissance Man

The secret to being happy at any age | Daily Mail Online

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Chanel and Armani celebrate big milestones at Paris couture week

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