10 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Truth

Fernando Pessoa quotes on truth

6. Faithful to the word given and the idea had. / All else is up to God!

47. In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

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.

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

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.

95. I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

114. Art lies because it's social.

117. Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.

139. And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true. // And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.

141. Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.