Fernando Pessoa
All things in the world are subject to classification...
All things in the world are subject to classification in the form of a series, of which the beginning is zero and the end infinity, that is to say which has no beginning and no end. Yet in consideration of this it is necessary to give these negations a positive aspect, and to say that the Series begins in zero and ends in infinity. Good and evil are thus subjected to the series; if we make good the term, zero is absolute ill and absolute good is infinity.
1906?
Textos Filosóficos . Vol. II. Fernando Pessoa. (Estabelecidos e prefaciados por António de Pina Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1968.
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