Home » Quote » Fernando Pessoa » „If we knew the truth, we’d see it; all else is system and outskirts.“ „If we knew the truth, we’d see it; all else is system and outskirts.“ — Fernando Pessoa Tags:Truth Related quotes „The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die“ — Jr. „We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.“ — W.B. Yeats „Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.“ — Marcus Aurelius „He knew the truth and was looking for something better.“ — William Saroyan „To sum up all these steps, each of which is very lengthy and complex, we will have put the game of truth back in the network of constraints and dominations. Truth, I should say rather, the system of truth and falsity, will have revealed the face it turned away from us for so long and which is that of its violence.“ — Michel Foucault