Jose Rizal Jos Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso

Jose Rizal José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda , was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is considered the Philippines' national hero and the anniversary more. .

“ Jose Rizal: One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. #Opportunity

“ Jose Rizal: To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own. #Passion

“ Jose Rizal: Each one writes history according to his convenience. #Writers and Writing

“ Jose Rizal: Virtue lies in the middle ground. #Virtue

“ Jose Rizal: No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being. #God

“ Jose Rizal: It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others. . . Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream. #Dreams

“ Jose Rizal: Is it not sad, I said to my countrymen, that we have to learn from a foreigner about ourselves? Thanks to the German scholars we get accurate information about ourselves, and when everything in our country has been destroyed and we wish to verify the historical correctness of certain facts we shall have to come to Germany to search for these facts, in German museums and books! #Books - Reading

“ Jose Rizal: Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. #Death and Dying

“ Jose Rizal: The world laughs at another man's pain. #Laughter

“ Jose Rizal: The sea, the sea is everything! Its sovereign mass brings to me atoms of a myriad faraway lands; Its bright smile animates me in the limpid mornings And when at the end of day my faith has failed me My heart echoes the sound of its sorrow in the sands. #Wisdom

“ Jose Rizal: He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps. . is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains. . . but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return #Opera

“ Jose Rizal: Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks. #Language

“ Jose Rizal: He who would love much has also much to suffer. #Love

“ Jose Rizal: The Philippines should be grateful to you if you would write a complete history of our country from an impartial point of view. . But don't expect thanks and laurels--crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people. But perhaps your children may gather the fruit of what the father planted. #Children

“ Jose Rizal: Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils. #Ideology

“ Jose Rizal: Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! #Theater

“ Jose Rizal: His coming to the world is like the appearance of a rare comet, whose brilliance appears only every other century. #Marriage

“ Jose Rizal: No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed. #Science and Scientists

“ Jose Rizal: Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction. #Action

“ Jose Rizal: Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all. #Genius

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