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Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896,
Bagumbayan; ancestral home: Quanzhou, Fujian), was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the
most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is
considered the Philippines' national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated
as a Philippine holiday called Rizal Day. Rizal's 1896 military trial and execution made him a
martyr of the Philippine Revolution.
"To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt
everything. " Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
"You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El
Filibusterismo) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Each one writes history according to his convenience. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
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! (Noli
Me Tangere) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with
flowers. (Noli Me Tangere) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage
of all! Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them,
and the stars to guide them even in darkest night. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
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! Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
He who would love much has also much to suffer. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
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. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--
and forget not those who have fallen during the night! (Noli Me Tangere) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
It breaks immortality's neck. Contemplates crime and therefore halts it; It humbles barbarous
nations, And makes of savages, champions! ("Por La Education") Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
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. (El Filibusterismo) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed
with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could
see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and
when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Man is multiplied by the "number of languages" he possesses and speaks. (Los Viajes!) Dr. Jose
P. Rizal »
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction. Dr. Jose P. Rizal
»
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in
operation by ethical forces. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed. Dr. Jose P.
Rizal »
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. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
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! Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers! (Noli Me Tangere) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present
itself again. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
People don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and
redemption is a product of sacrifice. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. (El Filibusterismo) Dr.
Jose P. Rizal »
The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El
Filibusterismo) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
The sea, the sea is everything! Its sovereign mass brings to me atoms of a myriad faraway
lands;Its bright smile animates me in the limpid mornings. And when at the end of day my faith
has failed me, My heart echoes the sound of its sorrow in the sands! (Mi Retiro) Dr. Jose P. Rizal
»
The world laughs at another man's pain. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
There are no tyrants where there are no slaves. (El Filibusterismo) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but
with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
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!
(24 December 1886) Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old
age. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Virtue lies in the middle ground. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »
Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow? Dr. Jose P. Rizal »

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Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »

The world laughs at another man's pain. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »

Virtue lies in the middle ground. Dr. Jose P. Rizal »

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