Fernando Pessoa
Popular opinion admits a God;
Popular opinion admits a God; true, but it is but the idea of God, which persists in all men, clothed in the accidents (so to speak) of theology. In India, the idea of God is other; the instinct is the same. Among the negroes the idea is other; the instinct is the same. It is the intellect that diversely clothes the same body.
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Textos Filosóficos . Vol. II. Fernando Pessoa. (Estabelecidos e prefaciados por António de Pina Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1968.
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