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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing.

Umberto Eco

Stichwörter: history new-orleans

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. 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.

Umberto Eco

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

Umberto Eco

Stichwörter: beauty variety

But if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.

Umberto Eco

Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.

Umberto Eco

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Umberto Eco

Omnia mundi creatura
quasi liber et pictura nobis est
in speculum.

Umberto Eco

Stichwörter: philosophical

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Umberto Eco

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

Umberto Eco