Jorge Luis Borges: His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a pr

His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a — Jorge Luis Borges

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I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. — Jorge Luis Borges
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. — Jorge Luis Borges
There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. — Jorge Luis Borges
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art — Jorge Luis Borges
Socrates : The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, — Plato
It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him. — Plato
A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles (elect — Albert Einstein
" We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us the — George Bernard Shaw
Rien n'est si ordinaire que d'imiter ses ennemis, et d'employer leurs armes. — Voltaire
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven . — Richard Feynman
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson