Umberto Eco

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#countries #ethic #good #latin #mythology

I write what I write. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#i write #write

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evaluate #everybody #fact #intellectual #italy

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#comes #difficult #down #net #question

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#father #his

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#courage #fear #fearful #gives #man

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#people #simple #simple things #things #tired

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#i #i am #like #perhaps #think

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#feeling #humor #opposite #perception

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#challenging #experience #more #more people #obliged