Umberto Eco Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

  Umberto Eco

  Vision, Steps, Ecstatic

  "The Name of the Rose". www.imdb.com. 1986.

• There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Animal, Heaven

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Past, Magic Moments

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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