Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

I think most people are more important than their opinions.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

I 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.