Jorge-luis-borges Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find, life gives…

— Marcel Proust

“There's nothing so magnificent - for making others feel you - as to have no imagination.”

— Henry James

“we are not only more than we imagined but more than we can imagine.”

— Roger Walsh

“It was a moment when I understood that all of us have to be more considerate of the realities of the bodies of others.”

— Roxane Gay

“The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.”

— Peter Rollins

“We are what we think. All that we are comes from our thoughts. Through thought we construct and destroy the world. Thought follows us…

— Anonymous

“This way will not pass again, and so there is a duty to be mindful of that which delights and keeps joy at the…

— Gregory Boyle

“Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to…

— Iain Banks