Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Eugenio Maria de Hostos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Puerto Rican novelist Eugenio Maria de Hostos.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Eugenio Maria de Hostos

Eugenio María de Hostos, known as "El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas", was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and Puerto Rican independence advocate.

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.
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?
Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need. — © Eugenio Maria de Hostos
Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.
If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.
When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
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.
Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.
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