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World Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and…
- There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor…
- I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
- The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
- Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
- That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,…
- The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue…
- I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
- After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the…
- I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the…
- This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're…
- Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
- The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…
- Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,…
- I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly…
- If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies,…
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach