Fernando Pessoa: Against Humanism

"I reasoned that God, while improbable, might exist, in which case he should be worshiped; whereas Humanity, being a mere biological idea signifying nothing more than an animal species we belong to, was no more deserving of worship than any other animal species. The cult of Humanity, with its rights of Freedom and Equality, always struck me as a revival of those ancient cults in which gods were like animals or had animal heads."

(Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet)

"AUTOPSYCHOGRAPHY" by Fernando Pessoa

The poet is a faker

Who’s so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact.

And those who read his words
Will feel in his writing
Neither of the pains he has
But just the one they’re missing.

And so around its track
This thing called the heart winds,
A little clockwork train
To entertain our minds.