6 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Future

Jorge Luis Borges quotes on future

66. Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

69. I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

74. I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.

79. Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

101. The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

115. The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.