Eugenio Maria de Hostos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Justice #Wish #Pursue
There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Character #Men #Soul
By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Growing Up #Son #Men
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Men #Light #Evil
All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Passion #Men #Errors
Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Struggle #Ideas #Goal
When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Pride #Justice #Virtue
Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Love #How To Love #Humans
Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Needs #Slavery #Shapes

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.
But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
We pursue that which retreats from us.
We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them...
It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Eugenio Maria de Hostos famous quotes

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