Epifanio de los Santos: Greatness

“.. he brought a sanity of perception and appraisal to his criticism of our prose productions, our plays, our linguistics, and what ever in letters that touches vitally the life of his people. The country has lost a truly great man in the death of Epifanio de los Santos Cristobal. He wrought for himself a destiny of glory which is the glory of his native land.”

Epifanio de los Santos

Zaide, Gregorio F. 1965. Epifanio de los Santos: Great among the great Filipino scholars. In Great Filipinos in history. 88 p. 581.
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Life , Death , People , Country

“Epifanio de los Santos was a genius, with all the great spontaneity and fire, and all the almost analyzable complexity of such a spirit. … His scholarship was profound. … Yet he was no mere pedant. He was never solemn. He was too wise to take life too seriously. He was always jovial and good company. He was something of a sensualist and liked good food and drink. But he had moments of sadness, and there were times when he drank not for pleasure, but for surcease.”

Epifanio de los Santos

A.V.H. Hartendorp “Don Pañong – Genius" in Philippine Magazine (September 1929).
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Life , Pleasure , Sadness , Food

“Great among the Great Filipino Scholars.. He was recognized as the foremost scholar of his time.”

Epifanio de los Santos

Zaide, Gregorio F. 1965. Epifanio de los Santos: Great among the great Filipino scholars. In Great Filipinos in history. 88: 575-581.
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Time

“"If you want to do something great in the world, do not get married, remain single… One may get married after he had accomplished something great in this world." Yet this great man who advised against marriage, was the happiest of men at the fireside of his family.”

Epifanio de los Santos

Views on marriage in The Manila Tribune. April 19, 1928.
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Men , Marriage , World , Family

“He was both great, and very, very human.”

Epifanio de los Santos

As quoted by Hartendorp “Don Pañong – Genius" in Philippine Magazine (September 1929).
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“Among the new bibliographers, Sr. Epifanio de los Santos, a young scholar with great culture, stood at the head; he possessed more than 2,000 titles, some of them were very rare.”

Epifanio de los Santos

As quoted by Wenceslao Retana in Gregorio F. Zaide's "Epifanio de los Santos, his collection and library" (The Tribune Magazine. p. 4).
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“To evaluate the greatness of the late director of the Philippine Library and Museum is utterly impossible. An accomplished musician, the foremost scholar in the land, a collector of the first rank, at home among the great masters of foreign tongues, Epifanio de los Santos leaves behind him a record of service and achievement that would be difficult to equal.”

Epifanio de los Santos

R. McCulloch Dick ( Editor, The Philippine Free Press).
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Home

“If you want to do something great in the world, do not get married, remain single… One may get married after he had accomplished something great in this world.”

Epifanio de los Santos

Yet this great man who advised against marriage, was the happiest of men at the fireside of his family.
Views on marriage in The Manila Tribune. April 19, 1928.
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World