Citação 18: Mário de Carvalho

Pisoteei meticulosamente o desenho com as minhas botinhas cardadas, até restar apenas uma lavra de areia remexida. Acto inútil. Não se apagam as realidades destruindo-lhes os símbolos. Talvez muitas milhas além, no caminho do cardador outros desenhos aparecessem e outras memórias fossem reavivadas. Estava extinta a congregação do peixe? Eu procurava convencer-me de que sim. Que sabia eu?

Mário de Carvalho, Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde, 1994

Citação 17: Lutero

The summons of death comes to us all, and no one can die for another. Every one must fight his own battle with death by himself, alone. We can shout into another's hears, but every one must himself be prepared for the time of death, for I will not be with you then, nor you with me. Therefore every one must himself be armed with the chief things which concern a Christian. And these are what you, my beloved, have heard from me many days ago.

Martin Luther, Sermon on Invocavit Sunday (9-3-1522); AE 51:70

Citação 16: Lutero

We must [...] have love and through love we must do to one another as God has done to us through faith. For without love faith is nothing, as St. Paul says: If I had the tongues of angels and could speak of the highest things in faith, and have not love, I am nothing.

Martin Luther, Sermon on Invocavit Sunday (9-3-1522); AE 51:71

Citação 15: Galileu

Whatever the course of our lives we should receive them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

Galileu Galilei, Terceira Carta Sobre as Machas Solares a Markus Welser (1-12-1612) [trad. Stillman Drake, 1957]

Citação 14: Denis de Rougemont

Looking for a man and finding only an author, is the reader disappointed by the man or by the author? He is disappointed by the relation of one to the other; by the inadequate man who reveals himself in the author, hence by the author, too, who reveals too little of the man.

Denis de Rougemont, Dramatic Personages, 1947 (trad. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964)

Citação 13: Sherlock Holmes

'My dear fellow,' said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, 'life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.'

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity," The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892

Citação 12: Lutero

See, according to this rule the good things we have from God should flow from one to the other and be common to all, so that everyone should 'put on' his neighbor and so conduct himself toward him as if he himself were in the other's place. From Christ the good things have flowed and are flowing into us. He has so "put on" us and acted for us as if he had been what we are. From us they flow on to those who have need of them so that I should lay before God my faith and my righteousness that they may cover and intercede for the sins of my neighbor which I take upon myself and so labor and serve in them as if they were my very own. That is what Christ did for us. This is true love and the genuine rule of a Christian life. Love is true and genuine where there is true and genuine faith. Hence the Apostle says of love in 1 Corinthians 13[:5] that 'it does not seek its own.'

We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor. Yet he always remains in God and in his love, as Christ says in John 1[:51], 'Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.'

Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian, 1520; AE 31:371

Citação 11: Jane Austen

'Pride,' observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, 'is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.'

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813, cap. 5

Citação 10: Lutero

The term 'our Father' refers to a confidence that we can place solely in God. No other can assist us to get to heaven than this one Father. The Scriptures say, 'No one ascends into heaven but he who descends from heaven, the Son of man' [John 3:13]. In his skin and on his back we too must ascend. Thus all who are heavy-laden, and even those who do not know the meaning of these words, may well pray this prayer.

Martin Luther, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer [...], 1519; AE 42:23

Citação 9 / Pia desideria

Be my strength in greatest weakness, that my last meal in this world may be the Holy Supper, my last thought to imagine Jesus crucified and dying, my last word may be to call out with my mouth, 'Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit.'

The Evangelical-Lutheran Prayer Treasury (traduzido do alemão por Matthew Carver, sob o título Lutheran Prayer Companion, St. Louis, Concordia, 2018, p. 32)

Citação 8: Bierce

Portuguese, n. pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.  

Ambrose Bierce, "Portuguese," The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911

Citação 7: Agustina

As coisas são assim: Sören ama Regina como uma pessoa interessante pode amar um assunto interessante. Como um autor ama a sua novela. Não descansa enquanto não lhe der um fim, e duvido muito que esse fim seja o casamento. Que fazia um autor casado com o seu romance? Nem quero pensar.

Agustina Bessa-Luís, Estados Eróticos Imediatos de Sören Kierkegaard, 1992

Citação 6: Kolb

Many in our age have also decided that we cannot know the truth about things beyond us in any case, and so it does not make a difference how we define or understand God. That opinion seems fine on sunny days. [...] In the midst of storm and strife, however, we want to be very sure that we know where our security lies.

Robert Kolb, Teaching God's Children His Teaching, 2012

Citação 5: Lutero

The mind is unable to judge the truth as such, although it is compelled to say, when entirely confident, "This is true." For example, the mind declares with infallible assurance that three and seven make ten, and yet it cannot adduce any reason why that is true, although it cannot deny its truth.

Martin Luther, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520

Citação 4: Lutero

Learning, wisdom, and writers must rule the world.

[Frase atribuída a Lutero, mas é provavelmente espúria.] 

Citação 3: Eça / A psique portuguesa

Aquele todo de Gonçalo, a franqueza, a doçura, a bondade, a imensa bondade, que notou o senhor padre Soeiro... Os fogachos e entusiasmos, que acabam logo em fumo, e juntamente muita persistência, muito aferro quando se fila à sua ideia... A generosidade, o desleixo, a constante trapalhada nos negócios, e sentimentos de muita honra, uns escrúpulos, quase pueris, não é verdade?... A imaginação que o leva sempre a exagerar até à mentira, e ao mesmo tempo um espírito prático, sempre atento à realidade útil. A viveza, a facilidade em compreender, em apanhar... A esperança constante nalgum milagre, no velho milagre de Ourique, que sanará todas as dificuldades... A vaidade, o gosto de se arrebicar, de luzir, e uma simplicidade tão grande, que dá na rua o braço a um mendigo... Um fundo de melancolia, apesar de tão palrador, tão sociável. A desconfiança terrível de si mesmo, que o acobarda, o encolhe, até que um dia se decide, e aparece um herói, que tudo arrasa... Até aquela antiguidade de raça, aqui pegada à sua velha Torre, há mil anos... Até agora aquele arranque para África... Assim todo completo, com o bem, com o mal, sabem vocês quem ele me lembra?

Quem?...

Portugal.

Eça de Queirós, A Ilustre Casa de Ramires, 1900

Citação 2: Lutero

A foοl often says wise things and frequently sages speak very foolishly.

Martin Luther, An Appeal to the Ruling Class of German Nationality as to the Amelioration of the State of Christendom, 1520

Citação 1: Kierkegaard

Before I was allowed to be young, I became old.

Søren Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus