Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Giving, Weakness

• Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Self, Giving

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

• The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Giving, Glory, Poor

• Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Giving, Personality, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.9, Profile Books

• 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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Real, Civilization

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

• Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Giving, Illusion

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.307, Profile Books

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