José Martí > Quotes

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― José Martí

“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”
― José Martí, Nuestra America y Otros Escritos

“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”
― José Martí

“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.”
― José Martí

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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― José Martí, Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses

“Todo es hermoso y constante,
Todo es música y razón,
Y todo, como el diamante,
Antes que luz es carbón.”
― José Martí, Simple Verses/Versos Sencillos

“Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.”
― José Martí

“Vivi dentro del monstro y conozco sus entranas”
― José Martí

“To Educate is to Free.”
― José Martí

“Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.”
― José Martí, Jose Marti

“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
― José Martí

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí”
― José Martí

“Dicen que murió de frío. Yo sé que murió de amor.”
― José Martí, Obra Poetica / Poetry Work

“In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.”
― José Martí

“Yo he visto en la noche oscura llover sobre mi cabeza los rayos de lumbra pura de la divina belleza.”
― José Martí

“Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.”
― José Martí

“i El deber de un hombre es estar allí, donde es mas útil!”
― José Martí

“The truthe wakes up once and never dies.”
― José Martí

“El amor, madre, a la patria
no es el amor ridículo a la tierra,
ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas;
Es el odio invencible a quien la oprime,
es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca”
― José Martí

“Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.”
― José Martí

“Yo vengo de todas partes,
Y hacia todas partes voy”
― José Martí, Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses