Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco (Born 1932) is an Italian philosopher and novelist.
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- "Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all."
- From A Theory of Semiotics, 1975
- Variation: "A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie."
- "There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten." [original in Italian]
- From Il nome della rosa', 1980
- William of Baskerville: "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry." [original in Italian]
- From Il nome della rosa, 1980
- After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
- From Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
- "I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages." --- Umberto Eco, quoted in the New Yorker
- "I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk. "
- p. 18 of Myriem Bouzaher's French translation of « Postille al Nome della Rosa », the Italian first appearing in « Alfabeta » 49, June 1983, the French from Éditions Grasset, 1985
- "A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection—not an invitation for hypnosis."
- Information Control For Social Manipulation, Nexus Magazine.
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- "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
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