Umberto Eco Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Order, Discipline

  Umberto Eco (1976). “A Theory of Semiotics”, p.7, Indiana University Press

• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  Umberto Eco

  Psychology, Criticism, Important

  "Literary game of drafts" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2002.

• 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.

  Umberto Eco

  Home, School, Opportunity

  "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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