Epifanio de los Santos quotes

All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve. (Epifanio de los Santos)
There is nothing more regenerating than music. View quote
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( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete. View quote
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If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid." View quote
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Today's events are tomorrow's history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past... so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor's sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future. View quote
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Before the conquest, the Filipinos had a literature written in characters of their own, and its manifestation in verse constituted of maxims, proverbs, boat-songs, nuptial-songs, war songs, love-songs, and the like. View quote
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...the greatest Filipino sculptor, in or outside the Philippines. View quote
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Epifanio de los Santos, greatest connoisseur of Filipiniana, foremost Filipino historian and biographer, and the first Filipino to become member of the Spanish Academy of Letters. View quote
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powerful intelligence, a formidable receptacle of culture and gifted with words. View quote
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.. he brought a sanity of perception and appraisal to his criticism of our prose productions, our plays, our linguistics, and what ever in letters that touches vitally the life of his people. The country has lost a truly great man in the death of Epifanio de los Santos Cristobal. He wrought for himself a destiny of glory which is the glory of his native land. View quote
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Lazy geniuses! There are no such men. Laziness and genius never go hand in hand. Each excludes the other. Laziness is the best proof of the absence of genius. (Epifanio de los Santos)
He was, in the early twentieth century, the country's most eminent biographer and literary scholar. View quote
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Epifanio de los Santos was a genius, with all the great spontaneity and fire, and all the almost analyzable complexity of such a spirit. ... His scholarship was profound. ... Yet he was no mere pedant. He was never solemn. He was too wise to take life too seriously. He was always jovial and good company. He was something of a sensualist and liked good food and drink. But he had moments of sadness, and there were times when he drank not for pleasure, but for surcease. View quote
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. was one of the most brilliant students of the Ateneo Municipal as far as humanities and natural and mathematical sciences are concerned. View quote
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the esteemed ornament of Filipino Culture. View quote
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Great among the Great Filipino Scholars.. He was recognized as the foremost scholar of his time. View quote
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On more than one occasion when reading Epifanio de los Santos, one reads Don Juan Valera. View quote
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He was both great, and very, very human. View quote
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...as regards to teaching of languages, he (Rizal) advocated, among other things, the study of Tagalog. Since he was eight years of age, Rizal championed his native tongue as a language of its own pure type, noble and exalted. View quote
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Among the new bibliographers, Sr. Epifanio de los Santos, a young scholar with great culture, stood at the head; he possessed more than 2,000 titles, some of them were very rare. View quote
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To evaluate the greatness of the late director of the Philippine Library and Museum is utterly impossible. An accomplished musician, the foremost scholar in the land, a collector of the first rank, at home among the great masters of foreign tongues, Epifanio de los Santos leaves behind him a record of service and achievement that would be difficult to equal. (Epifanio de los Santos)
Religion is one thing, and science another. What if they conflict? Religion is a matter of faith. Faith always gives satisfaction, whereas the truth does not always do so. As for me, I follow Anatole France who enjoins us to keep religion in one compartment of our head and skepticism in another. View quote
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Greatest of the last generation's men of letters in this country. View quote
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Known as supreme in the Philippine literary world, the keenest critic and writer we ever had. View quote
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The foremost literarian in the Philippines. View quote
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