Fernando Pessoa on Philosophy
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Fernando Pessoa, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Fernando Pessoa, entry #126515: "Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major."
Attributed to Fernando Pessoa, entry #215851: "For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain."
8 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa on Philosophy
"Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major."
"For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain."
"Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells."
"And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream."
"I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city."
"I exempt you of being present in my idea of you."
"Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being."
"What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it."