"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."

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"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."

Freedom

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

Humility

"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."

Creativity

"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."

Talent

"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."

People

"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."

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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."

"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."

"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."

"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."

"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."

"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."

"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."