José Rizal Quotes

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

José Rizal (June 19 1861 – December 30 1896) or known as José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, doctor, writer, and polymath whose works and martyred death made him a hero of the Philippine Revolution. His mother was Teodora Alonso and his father is Francisco Mercado. Rizal studied highschool at Ateneo De Manila University and then went to University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He did his post graduate work at the University of Madridin 1882. He was a prolific writer who produced many influential works in different genres. His most notable works were his two novels Noli Me Tangere, published in 1887 and El Filibusterismo, published in 1891, which exposed the injustices of Spanish rule and inspired nationalism. Since he was still young he grew up in a cultured home, with a sizeable library. He learned to read and write. It was his mother who introduced him into the world of books and literature until then he started his literary works and poems that is well known in the Philippines
He was killed by execution by the Spanish Colonial Government on December 30, 1896 at the age of 35 in Bagumbayan, Manila, for the crime of rebellion after the Philippine Revolution broke out, which was inspired by his writings.

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Alternative Names: Dimasalang • Laong Laan • José P. Rizal • José Protasio Rizal • José Protasio Rizal-Mercado y Alonso-Realonda

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He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish.

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive.

Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest!

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

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

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

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

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

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!

Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from error. (Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.)

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

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

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

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