To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Topics: Religion Quotes

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be...

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be...

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

Life itself is a quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of...

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays,...

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays,...

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that...

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that...

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.