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Quotes About Interpretation

By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course.
~ Umberto Eco
recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book.
~ Umberto Eco
Desgraciadamente, «posmoderno» es un término que sirve para cualquier cosa. Tengo la impresión de que hoy se aplica a todo lo que le gusta a quien lo utiliza. Por
~ Umberto Eco
Aún no se ha escrito ningún libro donde el asesino sea el lector.
~ Umberto Eco
Los libros no se han hecho para que creamos en lo que dicen, sino para que los analicemos. Cuando tomamos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué quiere decir.
~ Umberto Eco
Con padre Emanuele aveva capito che si doveva infervorare per le Heroiche Imprese - e che si può spendere una vita non per combattere un gigante, ma per nominare in troppi modi un nano.
~ Umberto Eco
But when I told him that these lords hoped to find the "truffle" underground, to eat it, he thought I had said they were seeking "der Teufel," the Devil, and he blessed himself devoutly, looking at me in amazement.
~ Umberto Eco
Un vis este o scriptur?, È™i multe scripturi nu sunt altceva decât vise.
~ Umberto Eco
Pictura est laicorum literatura, ? ????????? ????? ? ?????????? ??? ????? ????????.
~ Umberto Eco
tüm dilleri konuÅŸtuÄŸunu, ama hiçbirini bilmediÄŸini anlad?m.
~ Umberto Eco
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
~ Umberto Eco
La cultura è un'alternanza continua tra la libera presa di parola e la critica di questa presa di parola.
~ Umberto Eco
I see your point," William said. I had already had occasion to observe that when he expressed himself so promptly and politely he was usually concealing, in an honest way, his dissent or puzzlement.
~ Umberto Eco
This was my master's way. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature, but also knew the way monks read the books of Scripture, and how they thought through them. A gift that, as we shall see, was to prove useful to him in the days to follow.
~ Umberto Eco
The mass communication universe is full of these discordant interpretations; I would say that variability of interpretation is the constant law of mass communications.
~ Umberto Eco
Nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam.
~ Umberto Eco
Los libros no están hechos para que uno crea en ellos, sino para ser sometidos a investigación. Cuando consideramos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué significa
~ Umberto Eco
Çok önemi var, çünkü biz burada, kitaplar aras?nda, kitaplarla birlikte, kitaplara göre yaÅŸayan insanlar aras?nda ne olduÄŸunu anlamaya çal???yoruz; bu nedenle onlar?n kitaplar üstüne söyledikleri sözler de önemlidir.
~ Umberto Eco
Kitaplar inanmak için deÄŸil, araÅŸt?rmak için yaz?l?r. Bir kitap kar??s?nda onun ne dediÄŸini deÄŸil, ne demek istediÄŸini sormal?y?z kendi kendimize.
~ Umberto Eco
Somos nós que, diante dos opostos, acreditamos, conforme o nosso desejo, e a nossa paixão, que um deles seja o bem e o outro o mal.
~ Umberto Eco
El bien de un libro consiste en ser leído. Un libro está hecho de signos que hablan de otros signos, que, a su vez, hablan de las cosas Sin unos ojos que lo lean, un libro contiene signos que no producen conceptos. Y por tanto, es mudo. Quizá la biblioteca haya nacido para salvar los libros que contiene, pero ahora vive para mantenerlos sepultados.
~ Umberto Eco
What's the book about? I must admit I haven't read it. It's over five hundred pages long, which is a mistake — any defamatory work ought to be readable in half an hour. =
~ Umberto Eco
Ora penso invece che il mondo sia un enigma benigno, che la nostra follia rende terribile perché pretende di interpretarlo secondo la propria verità. I
~ Umberto Eco
I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth.
~ Umberto Eco