What did Umberto Eco mean by: I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy Copy
+ but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Freedom of speech, Speech, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Poet, Writing, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Blame, Dream, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Atheism, Dream, Scripture, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Enemy, Home, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ If somebody writes a book and doesn’t care for the survival of that book, he’s an imbecile. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Book, Survival, Writing, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ In other words, although I don’t like them, we do need noble-spirited souls. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Noble, Soul, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
+ The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Umberto Eco, Dream, Sports, 0 - Umberto Eco Writer · Italy
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. - François Rabelais Author · France
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them. - Jean Plaidy Author · England
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland