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Agostinho da Silva

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George Agostinho Baptista da Silva, GCSE was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer. His thought combines elements of pantheism and millenarism, an ethic of renunciation, and a belief in freedom as the most important feature of man.

I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.

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I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.

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Don’t feel satisfied with a party’s program: invent one better.

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Don’t feel satisfied with a party’s program: invent one better.

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Don’t make too many plans for your life, so as not to ruin those it has in store for you.

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Don’t make too many plans for your life, so as not to ruin those it has in store for you.

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For the philosopher there are never the blind who don’t want to see, there is always the blind who can’t see.

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For the philosopher there are never the blind who don’t want to see, there is always the blind who can’t see.

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It is perhaps a sign of bondage to the phenomenal world, the terror and pain before the arrival of death, or the serene but saddened resignation with which the greeks made it a sweet sister of sleep; for the free spirit it should be, like sound and color, false, exterior and fleeting. And the higher we will rise the less we consider death as a riddle or a ghost, the more we look at it as a form within forms.

EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Agostinho da Silva

It is perhaps a sign of bondage to the phenomenal world, the terror and pain before the arrival of death, or the serene but saddened resignation with which the greeks made it a sweet sister of sleep; for the free spirit it should be, like sound and color, false, exterior and fleeting. And the higher we will rise the less we consider death as a riddle or a ghost, the more we look at it as a form within forms.

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Man was not born to work, but to create.

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Man was not born to work, but to create.

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The time has come to prepare ourselves for new voyages, for the casting off of moorings is at hand; and, although we know the cross is eternal in this world of ours, perhaps it best be substituted in the unfurling sails throughout the fleur-de-lis of the North of maps, with Queen Isabel’s Holy Spirit and the perfect Trinity. The woman is very close to Nature; she has the same enchantment and the same dangers.

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The time has come to prepare ourselves for new voyages, for the casting off of moorings is at hand; and, although we know the cross is eternal in this world of ours, perhaps it best be substituted in the unfurling sails throughout the fleur-de-lis of the North of maps, with Queen Isabel’s Holy Spirit and the perfect Trinity. The woman is very close to Nature; she has the same enchantment and the same dangers.

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Thoughts move without changing place.

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Thoughts move without changing place.

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To live is more important than to have lived; and life is only real life when we feel something different outside of us.

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To live is more important than to have lived; and life is only real life when we feel something different outside of us.

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What is really traditional is the invention of the future.

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What is really traditional is the invention of the future.

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And it is the child the one that must be considered the noble savage, spoiling her, mis-shaping her the least we possibly can.

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And it is the child the one that must be considered the noble savage, spoiling her, mis-shaping her the least we possibly can.

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Be faithful to all because all are you.

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Be faithful to all because all are you.

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Believing, thus, that man is born good, which means on my regard that he is born a brother to the world, not its owner and destroyer, I think that education has not been much else than the system through which this fraternity is transformed in domination.

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Believing, thus, that man is born good, which means on my regard that he is born a brother to the world, not its owner and destroyer, I think that education has not been much else than the system through which this fraternity is transformed in domination.

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