It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
JORGE LUIS BORGESArt is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDon’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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 BORGESNo one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGES