5 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Ethics

Fernando Pessoa quotes on ethics

90. 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 buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

92. There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

130. All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

148. Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

159. Humanitarianim is rude.