11 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Reality

Fernando Pessoa quotes on reality

21. Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

58. Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.

67. My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

69. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

71. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

96. Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

101. Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

103. What is art but the denial of life?

137. Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.

143. I don't believe in the landscape.

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