7 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Religion

Jorge Luis Borges quotes on religion

18. To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

22. The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

53. Para uno de esos gnosticos, el visible universo era una ilusion o (mas precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan.

84. 'Maybe this crime belongs to the history of Jewish superstitions,' murmmured Lonnrot. 'Like Christianity,' the editor put in.

124. El infierno y el paraiso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.

142. The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

145. 'The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.' - (dogma of a fictional religion in 'Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv'. Part of this quote is also attributed to a heresiarch of Uqbar in 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'.)