Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Topics: Government Quotes

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

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.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

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

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

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

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 cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

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

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

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

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.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

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.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...

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

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