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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Jorge Luis Borges
Art, Exercise, Intellectual
Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.53, Grove Press

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.

Jorge Luis Borges
Philosophy, Philosophical, Exercise
Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

Jorge Luis Borges
Book, Ambition, Exercise
"Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 19321932.

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