For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. Umberto Eco
We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible....
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The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over. I fold my pillow under my head and wait for the voice to return. When I hear nothing but the sound of my...
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Lauren Hammond
Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
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John Milton
More Quotes By Umberto Eco
Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.
Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.
Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome
.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.
That which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness
