Fernando Pessoa
Perfect environment (see Drummond) demands...
Perfect environment (see Drummond) demands and coexists with non-personality. For just as the infinite, which is the perfect, because nothing can be conceived greater, is entirely different from any number, however great, for it is finite; even so a perfect environment cannot be a material one for however matter strive towards perfection yet it is ever imperfect. And even so, a perfect personality is personality no longer. But the consideration is yet more pregnant. A perfect consideration and a perfect environment are identical, the same.
1906?
Textos Filosóficos . Vol. II. Fernando Pessoa. (Estabelecidos e prefaciados por António de Pina Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1968.
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