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Quotes About Philosophy

Poate c? datoria celui care-i iubeÅŸte pe oameni este s?-i fac? s? râd? de adev?r, s? fac? adev?rul s? râd?, pentru c? singurul adev?r este s? înv???m s? ne eliber?m de pasiunea nes?n?toas? pentru adev?r.
~ Umberto Eco
We've been led astray by rationalist thought," Diotallevi said. "I keep telling you.
~ Umberto Eco
Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.
~ Umberto Eco
todo ideales y nada de ideas.
~ Umberto Eco
Yes. Mankind can't endure the thought that the world was born by chance, by mistake, just because four brainless atoms bumped into one another on a slippery highway. So a cosmic plot has to be found—God, angels, devils. Synarchy performs the same function on a lesser scale.
~ Umberto Eco
Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
~ Umberto Eco
Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.
~ Umberto Eco
i filosofi sono specializzati nel formulare domande di cui non conoscono le risposte, mentre un pastore d'anime è per definizione colui che ha sempre la risposta giusta. Fortunatamente
~ Umberto Eco
El espacio de la conjetura es un espacio rizomático. El
~ Umberto Eco
Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the world they design and very little about the world they help to construct.
~ Umberto Eco
Así pues, para definir el ser, hay que decir es, y usar de ese modo el término definido en la definición».
~ Umberto Eco
Un vis este o scriptur?, È™i multe scripturi nu sunt altceva decât vise.
~ Umberto Eco
Wo er einen Kopf haben sollte, hat er einen alten Bücherschrank. Einen wurmstichigen.
~ Umberto Eco
So must we then read books without faith, which is a theological virtue?" "There are two other theological virtues as well. The hope that the possible is. And charity, toward those who believed in good faith that the possible was.
~ Umberto Eco
Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;
~ Umberto Eco
Kitapl?k hem gerçeÄŸin hem de yan?lg?n?n kan?t?d?r.
~ Umberto Eco
The mass media first convinced us that the imaginary was real, and now they are convincing us that the real is imaginary; and the more reality the TV screen shows us, the more cinematic our everyday world becomes. Until, as certain philosophers have insisted, we will think that we are alone in the world, and that everything else is the film that God or some evil spirit is projecting before our eyes.
~ Umberto Eco
Ruh yaln?z gerçeÄŸi düÅŸünürken dingindir; iyi iÅŸlerden sevinç duyar; gerçeÄŸe ve iyi ÅŸeylereyse gülünmez. İsa'n?n gülmeyiÅŸinin nedeni buydu iÅŸte. Gülme kuÅŸkunun k??k?rt?c?s?d?r.' 'Ama kimi zaman kuÅŸkulanmak doÄŸrudur.
~ Umberto Eco
Do not expect too much of the end of the world. —StanisÅ'aw J. Lec, Aforyzmy. Fraszki, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977, "MyÅ›li nieuczesane
~ Umberto Eco
Nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam.
~ Umberto Eco
I deduce nothing: according to the rules of syllogism nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam, no law can be drawn from two single facts.
~ Umberto Eco
Afirmar la absoluta omnipotencia de Dios y su absoluta disponibilidad con respecto a sus propias opciones, ¿no equivale a demostrar que Dios no existe?
~ Umberto Eco
God is pure nothingness, touched by neither Now nor Here. The Name of The Rose
~ Umberto Eco
Sì, signore, io discendo dalla scimmia. Ma voi, signore, voi vi risalite!
~ Umberto Eco