“metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To explain is to disbelieve. Every philosophy is a diplomacy dressed up as eternity… Like diplomacy, it has no real substance, existing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have no philosophy, I have senses . . . If I speak of Nature it’s not because I know what it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won’t be me. Lucid… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
