Antonio Caso Quotes on Life
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 life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Existence as charity, not as economy, is the truth of the person.”
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Attributed to Antonio Caso:
“Self-interest is not the foundation of human life; sacrifice is.”
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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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“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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