Toby

“Berkeley affirmed the existence of personal identity, “I my self am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking active principle that perceives . . .” (Dialogues, 3); Hume, the skeptic, refutes this identity and makes of every man “a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity” (op. cit., I, 4, 6).”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

“I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, and which will be, because to censure or to deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

“some preached asceticism, others licentiousness. All preached confusion.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

“When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths