“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.” WorldStillsSoulDesireMy OwnWallMoralityDiversityMirrorsFallenAbstractSensationsMetaphysicsCentre Author:Fernando Pessoa
“The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.” WorldSoulConsciousnessWorstProduceEmotionalWeightBreathsAbstractFatigueShortness Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.” SoulArtistOrderTurnsLostUnderstandingBornImagineScientistChaosAbstractLost Souls Author:Robert Breault
“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.” MenWorldWaySoulWould BeCommonBreakEasierAimMethodCriticalAbstractThemeKnivesAcidSeparatingDissecting Book:The decline of the West Source: The decline of the West