4 Quotes by Umberto Eco about order
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Where is all my wisdom, then? I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.
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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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Will you tell me, William, you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them, where the truth lies?"Nowhere, at times," William said, sadly."You see? You yourself can no longer distinguish between one heretic and another. I at least have a rule. I know that heretics are those who endanger the order that sustains the people of God. And I defend the empire because it guarantees this order for me.
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World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions...
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