What did Umberto Eco mean by: I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy Copy
+ The real hero is always a hero by mistake. Feraz Zeid, August 24, 2023December 24, 2023, Umberto Eco, Hero, Mistake, 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
+ The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Instruments, Thrown, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Ambiguous, Gains, Significance, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Beautiful, Modesty, Truth Is, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Adults, Childhood, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Here And Now, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
