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Umberto Eco

" The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come. "

Men , Freedom , Wise

related quotes

" The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come. "

Men , Freedom , Wise

" 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. "

Religion , Fear , Humility

" Every great thinker is someone else's moron. "

Insult , Thinker , Moron

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

Love , Relationship

" If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot. "

Things , Ifs , Idiot

" Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots. "

Writing , Two , Glasses

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

Men , Believe , Atheist

" There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four. "

Four , Stupid , Mad

" Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means. "

Trust , Book , Mean

" Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications. "

Country , Communication , Army

" To survive, you must tell stories. "

Stories , Story

" All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity. "

People , Loss , Fake

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