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Jorge Luis Borges — Portrait after a picture by Grete Stern (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator

1899–1986

23 quotes, most often on Time, Philosophy and Writing.

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.
The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
No 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.
“The Immortal” (1949)
- Philosophy
It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much.
“Avatars of the Tortoise” (1939), collected in Discussion (1957 edition)
- Philosophy
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
“Avatars of the Tortoise” (1939), collected in Discussion (1957 edition)
- Ideas
- Philosophy

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