Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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What has a soul is distinguished from what does not by the fact of living.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The revolutions are not made by trivialities, but they are born from trivialities.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The things are called equivocal when they only have the name in common.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Necessity has caused to pair those who cannot exist without each other, such as man and woman.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have committed the worst sin one can commit. I have not been happy.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Death is a lived life. Life is a coming death.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Beauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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All theories are legitimate and none of them are important. What matters is what you do with them.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Before, distances were greater because space is measured by time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Those who say that art should not propagate doctrines usually refer to doctrines contrary to theirs.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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One must be careful when choosing enemies because one ends up resembling them.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing without mystery is happiness, because it justifies itself.