Umberto Eco

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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Seven Books to Read When Insomnia Strikes

The Atlantic 16 Jul 2024

HarperVia The Name of the Rose , by Umberto Eco Eco’s medieval murder mystery resists interpretation like a particularly thorny dream ... Within Eco’s closed, claustrophobic world, secrets, sins, and murder stalk the monastery after sunset.

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Italian Screens Movie Festival Comes to Medellin

Colombia One 12 Jul 2024

- Advertisement - ... The films that can be enjoyed at the Museum of Modern Art in Medellin are Lo mejor esta por venir (Il Sol dell’Avvenire) by Nanni Moretti (2023), Lubo by Giorgio Diritti (2023), Adagio by Stefano Sollima (2023), Umberto Eco ... .

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It is getting harder for footballers to survive the social media abusers | Jason Stockwood

The Guardian 03 Jul 2024

Telling young players to stop online interaction is all but impossible, but real connection requires effort and empathy Umberto Eco made a provocative statement about social media when receiving an honorary degree in Turin in 2015 ... ....

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It is getting harder for footballers to survive the social media abusers

The Observer 03 Jul 2024

Umberto Eco made a provocative statement about social media when receiving an honorary degree in Turin in 2015. it “gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... .

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I Live Sweat But I Dream Light Years: Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime at 40

The Quietus 03 Jul 2024

Set to chiming acoustic guitars and rumbling bass, ‘Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth’ riffs on Joyce, Umberto Eco and Ludwig Wittgenstein by featuring multiple voices exploring semiotics.

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Are Big Tech and Fascism synonymous?

Deccan Herald 29 Jun 2024

From Big Tech’s perspective, it is acceptable for law enforcement agencies to use its software for surveillance of Muslims and Blacks in the US but it is definitely not okay for China to keep tabs on ...

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Nick Canepa: Nepotism got Bronny James to the Lakers; time will tell if he can play

San Diego Union-Tribune 29 Jun 2024

Sez Me …. As awful as the NBA Draft is, it has come a long way since its lottery-less 1982 version, which culminated my one year of covering the outlandish circus named the San Diego Clippers ... He has talent ... Yes. Ten ... “No.” ... Umberto Eco on Unsocial Media ... .

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Michael Brenner: Signposts to Perdition

Scheerpost 26 Jun 2024

Trump Signing SOS Act. By Michael Brenner ... A ... B ... C ... D ... A serious discussion of Fascism should begin with a rereading of Umberto Eco’s definitive guide to reflection that systematically delineates its distinctive features (“Ur Fascism” NYRB June 22, 1995).

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Summer reading program continues at Hampton Library

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 20 Jun 2024

Hampton Community Library’s summer reading program is in progress and ends Aug. 10 ... Please note there are no children’s programs Fourth of July week ... Aug ... 1 and 8 ... For July 17, the book is “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco ... 2.

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Father’s Day quotes and messages to send to your dad

Metro UK 15 Jun 2024

Son handing postcard to father on father’s day (Credits. Getty Images). It’s Father’s Day tomorrow, a whole day dedicated to the dads and father figures in our lives ... I love you ... Crista says ... We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.’ – Umberto Eco. ‘Dad.

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Happy Father’s Day

Bangor Daily News 14 Jun 2024

Fathers of the 21st century face new realities and new challenges, but also new joys ... We are formed by little scraps of wisdom,” author Umberto Eco wrote in “Foucault’s Pendulum .” ... “He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”.

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This Father's Day, share a touching message with these 30 dad quotes

Usatoday 10 Jun 2024

Father's Day 2022. Gifts for dad. These Father's Day gifts are practical and affordable. ProblemSolved, Reviewed ... The third Sunday of June is when we celebrate dads and father figures ... – Umberto Eco, "Foucault’s Pendulum""Dad taught me everything I know.

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As the campaigns come to an end, is a silent day still relevant in the ...

Independent Online 07 Jun 2024

“Umberto Eco believes that the social media heralded the invasion of the fools ... Do we have the degradation of democracy as Eco believes or its enhancement, if Zuckerberg is right? Independently ...

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What makes a successful piece of public performance art?

RTE 31 May 2024

Analysis. Grounded in theatre but branching into many other art forms, performance art has always been disruptive and unpredictable ... The concept is simple but powerful ... As Umberto Eco wrote in The Open Work ... Read more ... .

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La Scala's French manager leaves theater financially fit as Meloni government turns to Italians

Newsday 28 May 2024

7. The new season also features a world premiere of “In the Name of the Rose,’’ a new opera by Francesco Filidei based on Umberto Eco’s novel commissioned by La Scala and the Paris Opera ... Get the latest breaking news as it happens. Sign up ... Newsday ... ....