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