Quotes About Knowledge

The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.

Every cultivated man is a theologian, and faith is not a requisite.

What is a book? A book seems, like a picture, to be a living being; and yet if we ask it something, it does not answer. Then we see that it is dead.In order to make the book into a living thing, he invented—happily for us—the Platonic dialogue, which forestalls the reader's doubts and questions.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

Bana ayn? anda hem 800,000 kitab? hem de karanl??? veren Tanr?'n?n muhte?em ironisi

Como todo poseedor de una biblioteca, Aureliano se sabía culpable de no conocerla hasta el fin

Pensar, analizar, inventar no son actos anómalos, son la normal respiración de la inteligencia. Glorificar el ocasional cumplimiento de esa función, atesorar antiguos y ajenos pensamientos, recordar con incrédulo estupor lo que el doctor universalis pensó, es confesar nuestra languidez o nuestra barbarie. Todo hombre debe ser capaz de todas las ideas y entiendo que en el porvenir lo será.

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. Francis Bacon: Essays, LVIII

Uno no es lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que ha leído.

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

To think is to forget.

All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

Essere immortale è cosa da poco: tranne l'uomo, tutte le creature lo sono, giacché ignorano la morte; la cosa divina, terribile, incomprensibile, è sapersi immortali.

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in my case I am unable to imagine a world without books.

Crees que la Caída es otra cosa que ignorar que estamos en el Paraíso?

Nadie puede leer dos mil libros. En los cuatro siglos que vivo no habré pasado de una media docena. Además no importa leer sino releer. La imprenta, ahora abolida, ha sido uno de los peores males del hombre, ya que tendió a multiplicar hasta el vértigo textos innecesarios.

I, that used to figure Paradise In the guise of a library

Scattered through the ordinary world, there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.

Existe un río cuyas aguas dan la inmortalidad; en alguna región habrá otro río cuyas aguas la borren. El número no es infinito; un viajero inmortal que recorra el mundo acabará, algún día, por haber bebido de todos.