Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

All experience is subjective.

History happens to one person at a time.

I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of the world.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.

Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

The moment is the sole reality.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.