Quote #93

Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
  2. Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
  3. Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
  4. I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
  5. The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the…
  6. Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
  7. The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
  8. Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

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