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Man Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
- To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to…
- Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out,…
- On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as…
- Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
- The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind…
- I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God…
- 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…
- A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,…
- Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden…
- Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he…
- I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of…
- Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within
- The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe…
- To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
- A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even…
- In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
- What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
- The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example:…
- Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are…
- A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing…
- The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something…
- Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who…
- Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle