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“Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.”

José Rizal

Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”

José Rizal

Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)

“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”

José Rizal

"Los Viajes"

“We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.”

José Rizal

Letter to Blumentritt, (31 January 1887)

“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”

José Rizal

"Los Viajes" in La Solidaridad (15 May 1889)- translated from the Spanish by Nick Joaquin

“; De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!:After all this, you still speak ill of us!”

José Rizal book El Filibusterismo

El Filibusterismo

“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.”

José Rizal

Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)

“; You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark.”

José Rizal book El Filibusterismo

El Filibusterismo

“To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.”

José Rizal

Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)

“I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess… but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.”

José Rizal

Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)

“Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.”

José Rizal

"Los Viajes"

“; It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice.”

José Rizal book El Filibusterismo

El Filibusterismo

“Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing! (God speaking to the angel Gabriel)”

José Rizal

"The Lord Gazes at the Philippine Islands", an allegory. (date unknown)

“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.”

José Rizal

Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - translated by Austin Craig

“Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.”

José Rizal

"Los Viajes"

“Muse who in the past inspired me to sing of the throes of love:
Go and repose.
What I need is a sword, rivers of gold,
and acrid prose.”

José Rizal

"To My__" (December 1890)- translated by Nick Joaquin

“It breaks immortality's neck
Contemplates crime and therefore halts it;
It humbles barbarous nations
And makes of savages, champions.”

José Rizal

"Por La Education" (To Education, c. 1876) - translator unknown

“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!”

José Rizal

Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)