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.