Humanism vs Nationalism - Fernando Pessoa

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Nicodemus

Humanism vs Nationalism - Fernando Pessoa

Post by Nicodemus » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:11 pm

Humanity doesn't exist sociologically, it doesn't exist before civilization. To consider humanity as a whole is, virtually, to consider it as a nation; but a nation that ceases to be a nation becomes absolutely it's own environment. A body that becomes absolutely the environment where it lives is a dead body. Death is that - the absolute delivery of oneself to the exterior, the absolute absorption in what surrounds. Thus Humanism and Internationalism are concepts of death, only brains nostalgic of the inorganic can pleasantly conceive it. All internationalists should be executed for them to obtain what they desire, the true integration in the environment to which they wish to belong. There are only nations, Humanity doesn't exist.
- Fernando Pessoa, esoteric and philosophical texts.

Fernando Pessoa was a very important portuguese nationalist writer, poet, philosopher, esotericist, and journalist.

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