7 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Humanity

Fernando Pessoa quotes on humanity

7. Without madness what is man / more than the healthy beast, / corpse adjourned that procreates?

26. We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.

79. His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.

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.

122. We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.

127. What would happen to the world if we were human?