Umberto Eco Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Past, Self

  Umberto Eco (1986). “Faith in Fakes: Essays”, Harvill Secker

• He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

  Umberto Eco

  Reality, Imagination, Creative

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.594, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Ideas, Imagination

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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