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Quotes About Imagination

omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum
~ Umberto Eco
Omnia mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum.
~ Umberto Eco
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously three old owls on a chest of drawers were screwing the daughter of the doctor. But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.
~ Umberto Eco
For him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.
~ Umberto Eco
It seems that fictional worlds are parasitic on the real world.
~ Umberto Eco
But evidence is not enough for those who want to live in a horror novel.
~ Umberto Eco
El genio es el que pone en juego uno de esos componentes de manera vertiginosa, alimentándolo con los demás.
~ Umberto Eco
El espacio de la conjetura es un espacio rizomático. El
~ Umberto Eco
But Saint Bernard was right: little by little the man who depicts monsters and portents of nature to reveal the things of God per speculum et in aenigmate, comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them, and as a result he no longer sees except through them.
~ Umberto Eco
Aún no se ha escrito ningún libro donde el asesino sea el lector.
~ Umberto Eco
Un vis este o scriptur?, È™i multe scripturi nu sunt altceva decât vise.
~ Umberto Eco
Wo er einen Kopf haben sollte, hat er einen alten Bücherschrank. Einen wurmstichigen.
~ Umberto Eco
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~ Umberto Eco
Anything was possible if the impossible was true.
~ Umberto Eco
It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely.
~ Umberto Eco
the best ideas may not come from the major authors.
~ Umberto Eco
the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself
~ Umberto Eco
Visionaries see only what their culture has taught them to see and allows them to imagine.
~ Umberto Eco
which reminds me of a saying attributed to Arthur Rubenstein: 'Do you believe in God? No, I believe in something much greater.' The best way we can manage to imagine in trying to conceive of God is the classic night in which all cows are black.
~ Umberto Eco
Disneyland tells us that technology can give us more reality than nature can.
~ Umberto Eco
But even this writer writes in the hope, not all that secret, that his book itself will create, and in great quantity, many new exemplars of this reader, desired and pursued with such craftsmanlike precision, and postulated, encouraged, by his text.
~ Umberto Eco
Es posible que la realidad no sólo sobrepase a la ficción, sino que la preceda, o más bien se apresura con adelanto, a reparar los daños que la ficción reparará?
~ Umberto Eco
En me retraçant ces détails, j'en suis à me demander s'ils sont réels, ou bien si je les ai rêvés.
~ Umberto Eco
Her past life had become a sort of fairy tale, to which she listened gladly and asked questions. After the treatment had continued for two or three weeks she began to exclaim, "I believe I remember that!
~ Upton Sinclair