Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Religion
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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.
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'Maybe this crime belongs to the history of Jewish superstitions,' murmmured Lonnrot. 'Like Christianity,' the editor put in.
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El infierno y el paraiso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.
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The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.
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'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'.)