Home » Quote » Fernando Pessoa » „All beginnings are involuntary.“ „All beginnings are involuntary.“ — Fernando Pessoa Related quotes „For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.“ — Jim Butcher „I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.“ — Jim Butcher „In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.“ — W. H. Auden „Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.“ — Franz Kafka „A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.“ — Jack Kerouac „Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.“ — Aristotle