Umberto Eco Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Tests, Spirit

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

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  Love, Heart, Men

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

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  Betrayal, Hate, Passion

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Oxford, Taught

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Eye, Light

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