Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Knowledge
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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
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Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
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There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.