Great man Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we…

— Fernando Pessoa

“As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee, I'll beg…

— Maryse Holder

“It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can annul all…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened,…

— Oliver Sacks

“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.”

— Mark O'Connell

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

“A person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions…

— Marcel Proust

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and…

— Socrates