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Quotes About Culture

Pictura est laicorum literatura, ? ????????? ????? ? ?????????? ??? ????? ????????.
~ Umberto Eco
La cultura è un'alternanza continua tra la libera presa di parola e la critica di questa presa di parola.
~ Umberto Eco
the relationship between beans and cultural renaissance is crucial
~ Umberto Eco
Bizler kitaplar için ya??yoruz. KargaÅŸa ve yozlaÅŸman?n egemen olduÄŸu bir dünyada hoÅŸ bir görev bu.
~ Umberto Eco
Visionaries see only what their culture has taught them to see and allows them to imagine.
~ Umberto Eco
Si los chicos no aprenden esto, que la cultura no es acumulación de saber sino discriminación, no hay educación sino desorden mental.
~ Umberto Eco
Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly;
~ Umberto Eco
es verdad, la cultura medieval tiene el sentido de la innovación, pero se las ingenia para esconderlo bajo el disfraz de la repetición (al contrario de la cultura moderna, que finge innovar incluso cuando repite).
~ Umberto Eco
La letteratura, contribuendo a formare la lingua, crea identità e comunità.
~ Umberto Eco
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of their history, like an ancestral portrait.
~ Umberto Eco
Lampedusa, Bassani y Cassola. Por mi parte, hoy
~ Umberto Eco
A German produces on average twice the feces of a Frenchman. Hyperactivity of the bowel at the expense of the brain, which demonstrates their physiological inferiority.
~ Umberto Eco
Lanny felt that he had learned more about Spain in this village than in any of the great cities.
~ Upton Sinclair
Various persons had decided to burn churches and church buildings in Spain, as a means of putting an end to the use of religion in support of political reaction and industrial slavery. Lanny was sorry, because to him these old churches were sanctuaries of art and of such culture as had existed in their day.
~ Upton Sinclair
When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don't I?" It was a remark that Lanny would never forget.
~ Upton Sinclair
Polish, Lithuanian, and German—Dom.
~ Upton Sinclair
That's why I always say being a Cuban is an incurable disease that you get in your blood, and sometimes it's even contagious.
~ Uva de Aragón
It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities.
~ Victor Hugo
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie. Those of us who had been in that part of Africa before the Europeans had never lied about ourselves. Not because we were moral. We didn't lie because we never assessed ourselves and didn't think there was anything for us to lie about; we were people who simply did what we did.
~ V.S. Naipaul
What Raja Ram Mohun Roy began as a reform movment early in the 19th century Devendranath Tagore made into a religion. It transformed the Bengali middle class. Rabindranath Tagore expanded that religion into a culture. And that culture became Nehru's politics.
~ V.S. Naipaul
I would say to her, in that mixed river language we used, 'One day, Beth, somebody will snatch your case. It isn't safe to travel about with money like that.' 'The day that happens, Mis' Salim, I will know the time has come to stay home.' It was a strange way of thinking. But she was a strange woman.
~ V.S. Naipaul
More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.
~ V.S. Naipaul
There may be some part of the world – dead countries, or secure and by-passed ones – where men can cherish the past and think of passing on furniture and china to their heirs. Men can do that perhaps in Sweden or Canada.
~ V.S. Naipaul
We exchanged greetings, and in the African way we could make that take time.
~ V.S. Naipaul