Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Truth
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had. / All else is up to God!
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
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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.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
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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.
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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Art lies because it's social.
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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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.
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Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.