Philosophy Quote by Alberto Caeiro — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I saw that there is no Nature,”

“She’s a manner of speaking.”

“To love is to think.”

“Also at times, on the surface of streams,”

“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;”

“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.”

“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.”

“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”

“When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.”

“Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”

“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has always been conceived and signified under that name—or that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can “what has always been conceived and signified under that name” be considered fundamentally homogeneous, univocal, or nonconflictual?) To take other examples: what historical and strategic function should henceforth be assigned to the quotation marks, whether visible or invisible, which transform this into a “book,” or which still make the deconstruction of philosophy into a “philosophical discourse”?”