54 quotes found
“I pass and I stay, like the Universe.”
“Theres enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.”
“There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.”
“All beings exist and nothing elseAnd thats why theyre called beings”
“All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that’s why they’re called beings”
“Pensar incomoda como andar chuvaQuando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.”
“The river of my village doesnt make you think about anything.When youre at its bank youre only at its bank.”
“I dont have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, its not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and thats why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love...”
“Its stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd theres nothing to understand.”
“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?”
“I dont always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;And the road didnt become more beautiful or even more ugly.Thats human action on the outside world.We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pa...”
“Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that theyre water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.”
“I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesnt exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these bel...”
“A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? Its just trees.Row and the plural trees arent things, theyre names.”
“All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.To want more is to lose this, and be un...”
“Even so, Im somebody.Im the Discoverer of Nature.Im the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself.”
“If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateId be more happy for a minute or so...But I dont always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to be natural...Not every d...”
“Things dont have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”
“What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think ab...”
“Praise be to God Im not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,...”
“If I talk about her like shes a beingIts because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things,And imposes a name on things.”
