“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he retains his own way of thinking. Language is the thought of a people.” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given to the soul in order that sound may not mar the ecstasy of feeling? In such moments, when the thoughts of two happy beings penetrate into each other’s souls through the eyes, the spoken word is halting, rude,… — José Rizal Copy Share
“What was exchanged in the language of their eyes, more perfect than their lips, the language afforded the soul so that no sound disturbs an ecstasy of feeling? In those moments, when the thought of the two happy beings meld through their pupils, words move slowly, coarsely, like the raspy, awkward noise of thunder from dazzling light that appears after… — José Rizal Copy Share
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“He would have admired one of those fantastic visions, those magic apparitions one sometimes sees in the great theaters of Europe, in which the deafening melodies of an orchestra are made to appear among a deluge of light, a torrent of oriental diamonds and gold surrounded by a diaphanous mist, from which a deity, a sylph comes forward, her feet… — José Rizal Copy Share
“The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“Countrymen: I have given proofs, as well as the best of you, of desiring liberty for our country, and I continue to desire it. But I place as a premise the education of the people, so that by means of instruction and work they may have a personality of their own and that they may make themselves worthy of that… — José Rizal Copy Share
“In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
