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Men Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we…
- I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
- The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
- 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,…
- At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
- Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
- 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…
- Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
- 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…
- We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
- 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…
- Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless…
- In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
- The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle