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About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic, and novelist, most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.
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Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking <i>among themselves</i>, and celebrating a reunion.
(<i>Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball</i>)
يرى البعض أن مصطلح التسامح هو مصطلح مبهم وهو مصطلح لامتسامح: حيث إنه يفترض، بالفعل، وفقاً لرافضيه، بأنه يمكن لنا الاعتقاد بأن شخصا ما غير مقبول بشكل أساسي، أو أنه أدنى منا مرتبة (وخلاصة القول فإنه من الأفضل تحاشيه)، بيد أننا نتسامح معه من مبدأ الأدب أو إيثاراً لمبدأ السلامة.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.