Jorge Luis Borges quotes - Page : 2

" The Garden of Forking Paths is an incomplete, but not false, image of the universe as Ts'ui Pên conceived it. In contrast to Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform, absolute time. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us. " # Philosophers and Philosophy

" Toward dawn, he dreamed that he was in hiding, in one of the naves of the Clementine Library. What are you looking for? a librarian wearing dark glasses asked him. I'm looking for God, Hladik replied. God, the librarian said, is in one of the letters on one of the pages of one of the four hundred thousand volumes in the Clementine. My parents and my parents' parents searched for that letter; I myself have gone blind searching for it. " # Seasons

" One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. " # Influence # Ethics # Work

" I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. " # Night # Solitude # Memory

" The original is unfaithful to the translation. " # Originality

" The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. " # Posterity

" The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. " # Procrastination # Truth # Life and Living

" Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. " # Time and Time Management # Books - Reading # Reactionaries

" Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. " # Writers and Writing # Planning # Goals

" Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. " # Writers and Writing # Past # The future