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Umberto Eco

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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war
3.2 · 36 votes · 135 reads
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Government and Politics
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
3.1 · 15 votes · 36 reads
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, ''That is all there was!'' But twist the
3.9 · 9 votes · 187 reads
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Feelings
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. - Hugo, Victor
3.4 · 34 votes · 185 reads
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Feelings
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
4.9 · 58 votes · 11 reads
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Society
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
3.7 · 51 votes · 78 reads
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Virtues
There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. L
3.6 · 25 votes · 138 reads
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Various
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
4.4 · 48 votes · 190 reads
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Virtues
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
3.2 · 34 votes · 31 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
3.9 · 64 votes · 131 reads
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Nature
Those who live are those who fight.
3.7 · 45 votes · 70 reads
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Art and Culture
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
3.3 · 7 votes · 45 reads
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Feelings
To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
3.3 · 14 votes · 9 reads
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Various
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social obse
4.7 · 36 votes · 157 reads
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Society
Toleration is the best religion.
4.5 · 31 votes · 94 reads
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Society
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
3.0 · 44 votes · 195 reads
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Various
We are the children of our own deeds.
4.8 · 61 votes · 120 reads
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Time
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
3.8 · 42 votes · 172 reads
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Time
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
4.2 · 11 votes · 27 reads
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