Pessoa Quotes
This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.
No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self
All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.
But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?
The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.
Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.
Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.