"Estou a exigir muito de si? Quem lhe há-de exigir muito senão os seus amigos? Eles receberam o encargo de não o deixar amolecer e, pela minha parte, tenha você a certeza de que hei-de cumprir. Você há-de dar tudo o que poder, e mesmo, e sobretudo o que não poder; porque só há homem, quando se faz o impossível; o possível todos os bichos fazem. Quando você saltar e saltar bem, eu direi sempre: mais alto! Que me importa a mim que você caia. Os fracos vieram só para cair, mas os fortes vieram para esse tremendo exercício: cair e levantar-se; sorrindo!" -- Agostinho da Silva, Sete cartas a um jovem filósofo, 1945
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostinho_da_Silva
a) "... that each man is different from myself and unique in the universe; that I am not the one, consequently, that must reflect instead of him, [...] that knows what is best for him, [...] that must point his way. Towards him I have only one right: helping him to be himself; as my essential duty to myself is being who I am, as uncomfortable as that may be [...]"
b) "... loving others and wanting their good has been the reason of much oppression and much death [...]; essentially, you must not love in others anything but freedom, theirs and yours. They must, for love, cease being slaves, as must we, for love, cease being slave owners."
c) "And it is the child the one that must be considered the noble savage, spoiling her, mis-shaping her [...] the least we possibly can [...]"
d) "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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostinho_da_Silva
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72K70_uYKdA
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