Culture Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image “What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Doe Does Infinity Make Want
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward. — Julia Hartz Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“Culture is any and all human effort and labor expended upon the cosmos, to unearth its treasures and its riches and bring them into… — Henry R Van Til Copy Share Image
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
If you see culture, to my mind it is something you need to consciously have to create. It's not like a box, where you… — Ashok Soota Copy Share Image
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come. — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
