Umberto Eco Quotes About Culture

We have collected for you the TOP of Umberto Eco's best quotes about Culture! Here are collected all the quotes about Culture starting from the birthday of the Essayist – January 5, 1932! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 6 sayings of Umberto Eco about Culture. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

  • If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

    "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.
  • The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

    "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.
  • What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

    "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.
  • The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

    Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco (2011). “This is Not the End of the Book: A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac”, p.82, Random House
Page 1 of 1
Did you find Umberto Eco's interesting saying about Culture? We will be glad if you share the quote with your friends on social networks! This page contains Essayist quotes from Essayist Umberto Eco about Culture collected since January 5, 1932! Come back to us again – we are constantly replenishing our collection of quotes so that you can always find inspiration by reading a quote from one or another author!