I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
-
-
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
JORGE LUIS BORGES