What did Umberto Eco mean by: Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet. - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy Copy
+ The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Path, Trouble, Writing, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ Homer’s work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ Libraries have always been humanities’ way of preserving its collective wisdom Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Human, Library, Wise, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Basics, War, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023February 9, 2024, Umberto Eco, Cooking, Food, Obscure, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Feelings, Opposites, Perception, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Missing, Starting Over, Youth, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Book, Decay, Sweet, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
