Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Reality

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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Jorge Luis Borges

Memories, Past, Reality

Jorge Luis Borges (2015). “Ficciones”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Jorge Luis Borges

Real, Reality, Accepting

Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Reality, Imagination

"Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life, Reality, Probable Cause

"Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Jorge Luis Borges

Science, Reality, Interesting

Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.2, Grove Press

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality, Planes, Novel

Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

Reality favors symmetry.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality, Favors, Symmetry

Richard Burgin, Jorge Luis Borges (1969). “Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges”, Not Avail

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality, Magic, Details

Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Pain, Reality, Men

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1940.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality, Anachronism, Symmetry

Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality, Thinking, People

Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Lying, Reality, Interesting

Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.2, Grove Press

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Reality

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