Antonio Caso Quotes
Antonio Caso Andrade was a Mexican philosopher and one of the founders of the Ateneo de la Juventud, the intellectual circle that broke with Mexican positivism in the years before the Revolution. Long-time professor and rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he developed in his Existence as Economy, as Disinterest, and as Charity a Christian-tinged personalist philosophy in which the human being is defined by the capacity for sacrifice and disinterested love. The quotes below are attributed to Antonio Caso, organized by topic.
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Antonio Caso on Freedom
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“I mean the Pythagorean Diet, which consisted (i ) in the free and universal Ufe of every Thing that is vegetable, tender and fresh, which requires little or no Preparation to make it fit to eat, such as Roots, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds: And in a general Abstinence from every Thing that is animal, whether it be fresh or dried. Bird, Beast, or Fish.”
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Antonio Caso on Knowledge
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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Positivism mistook the methods of one science for the form of all knowledge.”
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“I wished to show that Pythagoras , the first founder of the vegetable regimen, was at once a very great physicist and a very great physician; that there has been no one of a more cultured and discriminating humanity; that he was a man of wisdom and of experience; that his motive in commending and introducing the new mode of living was derived not from any extravagant superstition, but from the desire to improve the health and the manners of men.”
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“The following Discourse having been received in Italy with a great deal of Approbation... The Author was some years ago in England, is now Keeper of the Great Luke of Tufcany'j Museaum, a Fellow of our Royal Society, as well as of the College of Physicians in Florence, and will be found to speak of the English Nation in the highest Terms of Regard. [Preface]”
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“Milk and Honey made up part of this Diet: Eggs, on the contrary, were excluded, Their Drink was to be the purest Water; neither Wine nor any vinous Liquor.”
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Antonio Caso on Love
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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Existence as charity, not as economy, is the truth of the person.”
Antonio Caso on Mind
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“I have thought it my Duty thus publicly to set forth the Reasons for the Pythagorean Diet, considered as fit to be used in Medicine, and at the same time perfectly innocent, well adapted to Temperance, and greatly beneficial and conducive to Health.”
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“He forbid, in Flesh itself, that of carnivorous Animals above all other Kinds; and, for the same Reason, that of Wild Boars, and what was taken in Hunting”
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Antonio Caso on Nature
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“Pythagoras was certainly one of the greatest geniuses that ever Human Nature produc'd.”
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“We find the same Preference given to vegetable Food by all the other ancient Latin Writers, who had any Understanding of the Nature of Things, and by Galen , and Plutarch , who has shown more particularly, perhaps than any one, the Danger of animal Diet, in his Precepts of Health, and in his Discourses on eating Flesh.”
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Antonio Caso on Politics
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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Mexico must find itself in its own history, not in foreign formulas.”
Antonio Caso on Time
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“Nor has our Age been destitute of Examples of Men, brave from the Vigour both of their Bodies and Minds, who at the same time have been Drinkers of Water, and Eaters of Fruits and Herbs. In certain Mountains of Europe, there are People, even at this Time, who live on Herbs only and Milk; yet are very invincible and stout; and the Japanese (who are very resolute in dispelling Dangers, and even Death itself) abstain from all animal Food; and there are besides a thousand Examples known to every one, of Nations and Persons of great Temperance, joined with all other consummate Virtues.”
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Antonio Caso on Truth
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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Beauty is gratuitous; that is its dignity.”
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“True and constant vigour of body is the effect of health, which is much better preserved with watery, herbaceous, frugal, and tender food , than with vinous, abundant, hard, and gross flesh. And in a sound body, a clear intelligence, and desire to suppress the mischievous inclinations, and to conquer the irrational passions, produces true worth.”
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Antonio Caso on Virtue
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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Self-interest is not the foundation of human life; sacrifice is.”