Tag: Ethics

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In general, every country has the language it deserves. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life and death have been lacking in my life. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Wise Quotes about Love

Posted on January 16, 2011January 16, 2011 by

A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. – Tim Allen

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. – Mother Teresa

Love is the history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in man’s. – Germaine De Stael

Love makes life so confusing but without love would you want to live? – Unknown

Romance is the icing, but love is the cake. – Unknown

Age does not protect you from love. But, love, to some extent, protects you from age – Jeanne Moreau

Love either finds equality or makes it. – John Dryden

Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. – Henry Ward Beecher

I Love You Quotes

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author Unknown

A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay –
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)”

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown

Albert Einstein