Fernando Pessoa Quotes

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

Fernando Pessoa

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• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Truth
  • Hurt
  • Unless

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Consensus

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Same

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • World
  • Truth
  • Help

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Band

• The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Crisis

• When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Truth
  • Balance
  • Kindness

• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Choice

• The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Understand

• For so much of my life, I lived feeling as if, if I spoke, if I said something, I would lose everything. I would be pushed out. No one will want me. No one will love me. No one would want to be friends with me. It took me decades to get to a space of saying, 'This is my truth. This is who I am, and I don't care if you like me or you don't like me.'

  

  Janet Mock
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Friends

• Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Truth

• Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Truth
  • Believed
  • Removed

• Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Different
  • Society

• The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

  

  Usher
  • Unique
  • Dying

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

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Truth