You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
Jorge Luis BorgesRead
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Interpretation
Life is uncertain, but we should act with confidence and commitment.
This quote highlights the inherent instability of our foundations in life, suggesting that while everything we build may ultimately be fleeting or uncertain, we must approach our endeavors with the same determination and seriousness as if they were built on solid ground. It reflects the human condition of striving and creating despite the ephemeral nature of existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing challenges despite fear of failure.
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.
There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. β¦The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.
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