Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Technology is just a means. It's not the end.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a high obligation.... To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself ... absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

it is in vaine for a man to have a Right to the end, if the Right to the necessary meanes be deny'd him.

The question is, where do you draw the line between someone trying to thwart the other person because they want to thwart something they don’t agree with, as opposed to just wanting to thwart him. When the struggle is an end, not just a means to an end.

There will be goals to achieve along the way, but until I captain Liverpool, I will not be satisfied.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

In everything we ought to look at the end.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.