Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Topics: Government Quotes

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...

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor

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

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

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries...

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.

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.

Life itself is a quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

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

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

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...

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth...

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth...

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose...

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose...

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.