“Nature is the difference between the soul and God.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 150
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A natureza é a diferença entre a alma e Deus.
“This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.”
Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
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