Quote

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Jose Marti

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
Activist
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Painter
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Soldier
Translator
Writer
Havana
Cuba
Jose Marti
Life
Philosophy
Politics
Hope
Firsts
First
Men
Individualism
Think
Socialism
Thinking
Duty

More quotes by Jose Marti

Image
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
Jose Marti
Image
To Educate is to Free.
Jose Marti
Image
Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
Jose Marti
Image
To beautify life is to give it an object.
Jose Marti
Image
The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
Jose Marti
Image
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti
Image
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
Jose Marti
Image
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
Jose Marti
Image
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti
Image
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
Jose Marti
Image
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
Jose Marti
Image
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Jose Marti
Image
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti
Image
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
Jose Marti
Image
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
Jose Marti
Image
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
Image
Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
Jose Marti
Image
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
Jose Marti
Image
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.
Jose Marti
Image
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Jose Marti