Editing Jorge Luis Borges (section)

===Philosophy===
[[Fritz Mauthner]], philosopher of language and author of the ''Wörterbuch der Philosophie'' (''Dictionary of Philosophy''), had an important influence on Borges. Borges always recognized the influence of this German philosopher.<ref>[[Fernando Báez (writer)|Báez, Fernando]] "''[[Fritz Mauthner|Mauthner]] en Borges''" -nº 19 ''Espéculo'' (UCM): [http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero19/borg_mau.html]</ref> According to the literary review ''Sur'', the book was one of the five books most noted and read by Borges. The first time that Borges mentioned Mauthner was in 1928 in his book ''The language of the Argentines'' (El idioma de los argentinos). In a 1962 interview Borges described Mauthner as possessing a fine sense of humor as well as great knowledge and erudition.<ref>Entrevista con Borges publicada en la "''Revista de la Universidad de México"'', vol. 16, nro. 10, México, junio de 1962, pg. 9</ref>

In an interview,<ref>"[[Philosophy and Literature]]", Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 1977, pp. 337–41.</ref> [[Denis Dutton]] asked Borges who were the "philosophers who have influenced your works, in whom you've been the most interested". In reply, Borges named [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] and [[Arthur Schopenhauer|Schopenhauer]]. He was also influenced by [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]], about whom Borges wrote a famous poem.<ref>Borges, Poesía completa, Debolsillo, Penguin, Barcelona 2016, p. 461</ref> It is not without humour that Borges once wrote: "Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca." ("I always imagined Paradise to be some kind of a library.")<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Blindness |orig-date=Lecture the chapter is based on given in 1977 |title=Selected Non-Fictions |last= Borges |first= Jorge Luis |editor-first=Eliot |editor-last=Wienberger |page=475 |year=1999 |publisher=Penguin Publishing |quote="Little by little I came to realize the strange irony of events. I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. Others think of a garden or of a palace. There I was, the center, in a way, of nine hundred thousand books in various languages, but I found I could barely make out the title pages and the spines." |isbn=0-670-84947-2}}</ref>