Antonio Caso Quotes on Knowledge
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Antonio Caso on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Mexico must find itself in its own history, not in foreign formulas.”
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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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