I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any di…

Umberto Eco
240 citations
I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing. ✨ Umberto Eco (2001). Foucault's Pendulum, Random House
Humanity
25

More Author Quotes

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). Travels in Hyperreality, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so … ▶
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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 … ▶

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing. ✨ Umberto Eco (2001). Foucault's Pendulum, Random House

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes