Eugenio Maria de Hostos

Educator

1839-01-11 – 1903-08-11

Eugenio Maria de Hostos was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, and independence advocate active across Latin America and the Caribbean. He promoted secular education, civil reform, and anticolonial thought in the nineteenth century. His work influenced pedagogy and political discourse in multiple countries.

Quotes by Eugenio Maria de Hostos

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.
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Puerto Rican writer, Cauce sin rio Under every social skin there lurks some barbarism.
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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.
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Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
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All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.
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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?
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When you cannot be just because of your nature, be so through your pride.
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When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.
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If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.
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Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.
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Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
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