Pessoa's Genius Philosophy

[@georgia_yn]

‘I bear all the wounds of all the battles I avoided’… that hit hard Great video, thank you

[@Brainteaser5639]

@georgia_yen Do you listen to Michael Sugrue? Michael, like Fiction Beast, dilutes the weight of these books, enabling most of us to pick these authers' brains with wonder. I am looking at Shakespeare's play "Measure for Measure" review by MS. RIP, sir.

[@lynnfisher3037]

Wow!

[@lynnfisher3037]

​@@Brainteaser5639Sugrue was great. So glad I discovered his lectures. Died much tik young 😢

[@georgia_yn]

@@Brainteaser5639 wow I hadn’t heard of him until now. Thank you for mentioning him! His lectures are incredible!!

[@Brainteaser5639]

@@georgia_yn All the best.

[@garciapedro7668]

As a native of the Portuguese language, proud to see one of the greats being discussed

[@gilsimhon9251]

the greatest modern Portuguese poet it says in my native language wiki which is the hive mind given truth from light pixels on this machine

[@ajk9420]

That's one thing I wish I could do, Read in originall Portuguese of his poems and proses.

[@pchabanowich]

It seems, at least in some ways, that there are Buddhist tenets in Fernando's process. As I age, more and more I seek solitude. After a lifetime of living on the farm 'I bought' - you know, all that social congress - the inner life is blossoming. Late to the sale of the farm, but splendid joys unfold as a result.

[@milmundos]

Alberto Caeiro in particular is an amazing representation of Zen Buddism. Though I think Pessoa never had contact with buddhism as far as I know.

[@Rtx5678]

Fantastic video! It beautifully captures how the so-called 'useless' things often hold the deepest philosophical value. It’s amazing how we find meaning in the seemingly insignificant. A thought-provoking perspective that makes us rethink what we truly value!

[@crosstolerance]

"Expect that no one will recognize your talent and understand that you might die as an unknown, unrecognized and unappreciated artist." This is the harsh reality that's hard to swallow.

[@rezafarhad9915]

Todays mentality is all about materialism , dollar , cent

[@stefashaler8340]

I take your point. For some of us though this is the perfect freedom.

[@Rtx5678]

Great video on Pessoa! His insights are as profound as they are timeless. Truly thought-provoking!

[@l.georgealexander8330]

As usual, you direct me to something I didn't know about but my life is better because I now know,. Thank you.

[@Isayit]

I’m on my mid 30’s now. Few years back, when I was 27 this title and cover took me to read it. I found this book in library. I was not having job at that time. But I was a good reader all day. I read some first 30 around pages… I cried after reading I couldn’t take lunch that day and more happened and still that book had hard impact on my soul. Many great person lived in this earth. Whom we forgot to encourage and celebrate. Life if tough, I’m trying to transform as film director from associate film director . This man words still In me. Thanks for the video.

[@milmundos]

My favorite heteronim of Pessoa is Alberto Caeiro. Caeiro is totaly in the present without any goals and without any regret, melancholy or bitterness about it. O Guardador de Rebanhos (The Keeper of Heard), I don't know how easy it is to find it in english, is my favorite book ever, it is my bible.

[@Silva-zq5er]

Great to see a video about one of the best portuguese writers ever! 🇵🇹

[@paddy654]

This site is like a perpetum mobile, you never end learning something new.. today I learned about unknown poets philosophers ❤❤❤

[@gilsimhon9251]

novelty engine

[@Mostafa.7600]

I had seen this book among pessimistic philosophical books yet never took interest in it. Your beautiful video made me want to read it. ❤❤❤

[@pbskidsnetwork]

Thank you for showcasing one of my favorite persons

[@martypines9704]

It feels sometimes that those who were once the guardians of culture and intellectual challenge (such as our own BBC) have largely abandoned this mission. So it is a great joy to find such deeply thought out, intellectually stimulating and profoundly useful content such as this. Pessoa's book has been on my bed side table for many years as a source of wonder and wisdom. Your exposition only adds further to the joy this book brings me.

[@davidpitchford6510]

I told my girlfriend I thought of her when I read the thumbnail, "The Beauty of Useless Things", and she hit me on the head with a frying pan.

[@evanramirez2212]

😂

[@ingenuity296]

😂😂😂

[@AlexandraNevermind]

Why did I have see your comment before I had a chance to watch the video?! Now I can’t stop laughing enough to watch it! Damn you!

[@skyblazeeterno]

It's interesting that if you swapped the genders this thread would be running into the hundreds with women being appalled

[@johnduffin9425]

dang, Shaniqua!

[@celestialreasoning4018]

You are a genius! I love your channel. I have missed your great intelligence and deep dives. Too much political diving lately in the US. It's refreshing to be back!!

[@BookMonster1]

Amazing video 💯

[@tnepc1845]

Oh wow much appreciated. I love Pessoa and this channel ❤

[@RingJando]

Thank you so very much for piecing this literary ensemble into a digestible whole-Cheers

[@joshua_fry_speed9449]

I love your work

[@muradtalukdar4401]

This video was beautifully crafted and filled with an unnecessary utility.

[@agranero6]

Fernando Pessoa was so big that he didn't fit in only one man, so he needed to create the heteronyms, not pseudonyms, but different authors, with different biographies, personalities and styles. They are Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Alberto Caieiro, Bernardo Soares and others in a total of about 25, besides Fernado Pessoa himself (what we call in Portuguese Fernando Pessoa ele mesmo). He is so complex that there is a complete field of study just about them. We call them collectively "A Heteronímia".

[@lerayanvert]

No one understands me more than Pessoa

[@brassen]

"Não me vejo em ninguém mais que em Pessoa" - hope it translates well to you

[@roberthornack1692]

Thank-you, well done. Always live for the moment, because it may be your last & yet we always forget that nothing lasts & squander our days with useless thoughts of what ifs.

[@Troca.]

Dear Fiction Beast, I have loved you dearly for quite some years now , but you doing the most legendary author of my country fills me with a special joy. Now, I think you would like to know and dig about: Fernando Pessoa, Aleister Crowley and their mythical story which has its climax in "A Boca do Inferno" (" The Mouth of Hell") . It is an hilarious story that could only be "engineered" by Pessoa. this one and so many others, the man is a well of myths and legend, and an absolute treat for the curious and the seeker. Ty for your work.

[@sejaleeuwen]

Pessoa how wonderful thank you for this video ❤

[@corneliuscornia4436]

Reminds me of the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran.

[@marclayne9261]

I have read this book 3 times...I carry a copy when I go out....

[@venzicbarbosa1974]

Amazing amazing knowledge ❤

[@NJGuy1973]

If useless things are beautiful, then you're drop dead gorgeous.

[@fabiocunha25]

Im from Porto, Portugal. I love your channel. I learn so much, While im doing daily tasks. Can you do one day a video just about Yukio Mishima life and works?

[@Fiction_Beast]

Great suggestion!

[@kingfisher9553]

Met a Shaman who said he decided that life made no sense and so he decided to out-ridiculous life. His way to be the most ridiculous person in life was to choose to see meaning in everything. I admired his rich life. I had always been interested in Jung, so I combined Jungian philosophy with a sort of indigenous philosophy and that is how I navigate life. It's rich. And filled with meaning and serendipitous happenings and surprise (rather than "unexpected attack"). I feel sorry for Pessoa, given what little I know of him, as he seems never to have been so struck by a different view, a different cultural belief, an extraordinary personality, an amazing animal that he has never been knocked out of his own mind for a few seconds -- so he believes that he is trapped in his own mind.

[@gilsimhon9251]

I think your description is like feeling sorry for the ocean, for it has no depth below the waves. perhaps if you just put your eyes (or other sense organ) under the water surface level, you might see other views. perhaps reading some Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis will be of a good prior step, like inhaling before diving in

[@VirginMostPowerfull]

Sounds like a scammer to me. He's just pretending. It would be better to hope in true meaning even if evidence is limited, or even better find it.

[@nicholas3186]

Zen sage stuff right there. That sort of self-aware playfulness with life is perhaps the best mentality to have.

[@ammarahmad9976]

Thank you ❤

[@meiyuc22]

For me, reading these philosophical wisdom is like reading artistic poems.

[@DaleCooper-hc1se]

What's the name of the painting at 16:45? Is it by Munch?

[@lukasferreiraa7885]

Não é possível! Acabei de pegar o “Livro do Desassossego “ do Fernando Pessoa e entro no KZbin pra colocar uma música pra continuar a leitura e o KZbin me recomenda esse vídeo ❤😊

[@mariam.3224]

Sincronia...

[@Sachie465]

Did he not think that his words would resonate with his contemporaries? I found a translation of a tenth of the original book and will try to read it. Thank you very much.

[@cosminpopa8208]

I think Cioran wrote in journals about pessoa because they were both dark people from different cultures but similar in suffering and loneliness. Maybe when thei said that Portuguese people are top in depression because of emotional characters,

[@hellouser5498]

Pessoa, Proust, Kafka... I knew straight away Pessoa was J, They found 25 000 pages in his trunk, this book is about 500+, anything interesting in remaining 24 000 ?

[@francisdec1615]

Proust and Kafka were Jews for sure. I can't find anything Jewish about Pessoa. Hope it feels good to be an antisemite. You probably believe the Earth is flat as well.

[@joaomartins1367]

Rebember that you have a Pessoa inside of you if you wish to explore the mind of this man even deeper, however that version is created by your own mind or at least shape by it like everything else, so don't worry to much. If meaning is to be found in life is in art, wich also is one of the most meaningless things you can do. Paradox my friends is the truest truth of life, or perhaps our lack of wisdom (truth) makes it so, thus another paradox.

[@lukehunnable]

My girlfriend overheard the part about no dreams, no children, no achievements, and asked: "que porcaria é que estás para aí a ouvir"? Yes, she's Portuguese.

[@Lemang01]

Thanks!

[@Fiction_Beast]

You’re welcome ! Appreciate the support.

[@markspano3468]

In 1976, I read the pesoa poem The Tobacco Shop. From then on I was a pesoa fan.

[@gilsimhon9251]

just gifted it to myself 2 months ago treasure

[@BOARMoto-bm2mh]

Arguably, one of the best poems ever written (with the Latin alphabet). Its content is unassailable.

[@muradtalukdar4401]

Where is the castle at 1:26?

[@belenrey3448]

Tower of Belén, Lisboa, and I'll recommend Sintra

[@muradtalukdar4401]

@@belenrey3448 thank you

[@dagerman7032]

Nice video. but the Book of Disquiet is not Pessoa's masterpiece. He is mostly anD fundamentaly a great poet, with many voices. Pessoa is at his best under the mask of Álvaro de Campos and Alberto Caeiro. I know that because i can read him in portuguese.

[@demej00]

I create lost of useless stuff: useless machines, painted artworks, guitar songs - that very few people appreciate. Sometimes I am remorseful for the time I wasted on them when I could have been doing something more useful, utlitarian, concrete, material, whatever. I have tried one thing though, to somehow praise God with them. That is the only thing that will make them survive my death and how can anything be greater than praising who you think made us? Survivability is probably somewhat selfish motivation for creation though. Perhaps though they will be utlitarian in ways I never anticipated.

[@amarnathsankar3137]

What is yhe background music?

[@marclayne9261]

This manuscript was found decades after Pessoa passed....I do believe..

[@LostinTime0310]

Pessoa: This video is useless that's why it's beautiful

[@kimsherlock8969]

Thankyou 😊😊😊

[@muradtalukdar4401]

19:42 Madame Bovary?

[@booshank2327]

As a 15 year unemployed 35yo, maybe I should finally read The Book of Disquiet, everything I've ever heard about it seems like Pessoa took the time to craft into words exactly the thoughts which flit through my mind on a daily basis.

[@vahsibatljohnny6682]

If you have been living for 15 years without working then you dont have to work at all?

[@booshank2327]

@@vahsibatljohnny6682 On unemployment benefits and living an impecunious life in my childhood bedroom, with my ageing mother. We have no assets and she will retire within the next decade. Still, I'm unmoved to action.

[@gilsimhon9251]

read it

[@michaelmessenger5742]

Thinker men think too much None of us are all knowing Embrace each and every season

[@CccAaa-ff6mw]

I love your voice, you sound like youve got confetti stuck between your teeth when talking

[@Sum_1human]

Emil cioran goes even more extreme

[@BOARMoto-bm2mh]

Cioran more an absurdist (although a pessimist as well). I’d much rather be chilling with Cioran, but then he reminds me with his unassailable aphorism that “At different degrees, everything is pathology except indifference.”

[@viniciusnascimento1993]

Desassossego and "disquiet" are two VERY different things with very different meanings and understandments, i dont thing there is a word to "Desassego" outside portuguese. "Sossego" is not only about being quiet, is about being in peace, relaxed, light, and when you say "DESAsossego" is the oposite of that.

[@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc]

I stink therefore I am

[@j4v3l73]

Modern Europes Lao Tzu

[@VimalVS-om2zc]

❤❤❤

[@HughesMath1]

I don't think it's "ironic" that he didn't finish writing the book

[@HughesMath1]

Oh it's ironic that it is such a famous book and not finished

[@HughesMath1]

Emily Dickinson like

[@walterbraun3731]

"Leo Tolstoy said that life is a dream and death is waking up." Who is doing the dreaming ? A bored cosmic Spirit having nightmares fur fun?

[@AltumDolor]

What's up with the voice? Sounds like AI

[@kingfisher9553]

You can tell it's not AI because he can pronounce correctly

[@eenblanke]

This guy would love psychedelics

[@atiger4716]

Here a reader of Pesoa in the past, the most wrong person I read. I you have about about that read carefully his biografy, it is the definition of a very goog writer, but so week, withaut uny real prospect of a real life, poor man, he cold not be a real man in his completeness I valid read to be the opposite of his ideas

[@allonszenfantsjones]

Do you mean pseudonym? Because heteronym in this context makes no sense. Okay researched this and it's clear that the word has been redefined. I find that a bit silly and I think the author wouldn't give two figs about my opinion 🤪

[@BillSikes.]

It seems to me he was clinically depressed, ironically he could have broke free of it thru the study and practice of Buddhism

[@atiger4716]

Phatologic depressed to the core, whit the firm conviction to no make any effort to chsnge

[@BillSikes.]

@@atiger4716 Exactly 💯

[@VirginMostPowerfull]

Why Buddhism exactly and not another religion like Christianity? Genuinely asking.

[@BillSikes.]

@@VirginMostPowerfull Buddhism will reveal the illusory nature of all that appears to our Minds, including suffering, with insight into ourselves we will see that our waking world is no different to the world we see in our dreams, this is unlike other religions which require blind faith in a deity that'll supposedly remove our suffering if we only ask in prayer and subscribe to certain religious precepts, this is still part of the waking dream world, replete with all of it's inherent suffering

[@VirginMostPowerfull]

@@BillSikes. Doesn't Buddhism also teach that there exists multiple realms of deities and demons including a form of hell, and that reincarnation exists? Are those not religious precepts one has to believe in or do you make your own secularized Atheist Buddhism and pretend it's what Buddha taught? In Christianity we are not asked to believe by blind faith, this is a caricature straw man you made to look enlightened when it's not true. For example the Gospel of St. Luke in its prologue starts by saying the author is doing a historical work based on eye witness accounts which he gathered to synthesize into a work, clearly appealing to people's intelligence not blind faith. Moreover the Christian solution to the illusory nature of the world is more wholesome because it does not require you to stop desiring, it just requires you to reframe your desires through sacrificial suffering exemplified by Jesus Christ crucified and resurrected. This produces profound love, thus arrachement, while yet detaching from individualistic desires as it is no longer you who desires selfishly but Christ who loves through you. This fulfills our hearts and makes us enter into the paradox where we are detached from everything because of God, yet attached to everything through God.

[@DeannaClark-oo9ut]

The devouring utilitarianism of many American women today is scary......long life Dolce far niente.

[@bdml77]

Hope you get picked!

[@bdml77]

I don't think you know what narcissism is...

[@michaelhall2138]

Utter cobblers.