7 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Perception

Fernando Pessoa quotes on perception

31. I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

51. The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

64. Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.

80. We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

105. To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

154. To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. [...] Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations? // Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.

158. I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.