Claudio Chagas
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“Não, a visão é sempre sólida e confiável. A realidade é que muitas vezes é uma fraude. Como sempre fiz, mais do que nunca o fiz, eu acredito no liberalismo. Mas houve um róseo tempo de inocência em que eu acreditava nos liberais.”
― Ortodoxia (Clássicos MC)
― Ortodoxia (Clássicos MC)
“tive certeza sobre o homem na Lua antes de ter certeza sobre a Lua. Isso está em harmonia com a tradição popular. Os obscuros poetas modernos são naturalistas e falam de arbustos e riachos; mas os cantores dos poemas épicos e fábulas da antiguidade eram sobrenaturalistas e falavam dos deuses dos riachos e arbustos. É isso que os modernos querem dizer quando afirmam que os antigos não “apreciavam a natureza”, porque diziam que ela era divina. As antigas babás não falavam às crianças sobre a relva, mas sobre fadas que dançam sobre a relva; e os antigos gregos não conseguiam ver as árvores devido às dríades.”
― Ortodoxia (Clássicos MC)
― Ortodoxia (Clássicos MC)
“I have always been more inclined to believe the ruck of hard-working people than to believe that special and troublesome literary class to which I belong. I prefer even the fancies and prejudices of the people who see life from the inside to the clearest demonstrations of the people who see life from the outside. I would always trust the old wives' fables against the old maids' facts. As long as wit is mother wit it can be as wild as it pleases.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“I was sure of the Man in the Moon before I was certain of the moon. This was at one with all popular tradition. Modern minor poets are naturalists, and talk about the bush or the brook; but the singers of the old epics and fables were supernaturalists, and talked about the gods of brook and bush. That is what the moderns mean when they say that the ancients did not "appreciate Nature," because they said that Nature was divine. Old nurses do not tell children about the grass, but about the fairies that dance on the grass; and the old Greeks could not see the trees for the dryads.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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