Quote #97
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
More from Fernando Pessoa
- Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
- To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
- I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
- I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
- The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
- Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
- Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
- Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.