Jorge Luis Borges on Truth
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Jorge Luis Borges, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Jorge Luis Borges and filed under "truth" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Jorge Luis Borges, entry #75976: "He transforms all concepts into incommunicable, solidified objects. To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality."
Attributed to Jorge Luis Borges, entry #83393: "Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."
6 Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges on Truth
"He transforms all concepts into incommunicable, solidified objects. To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality."
"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."
"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 are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
"Review of "Hakim, Masked Dyer of Merv"
"It's possible, but not interesting," Lonnrot answered. "You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber."
"Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare."