Samuel Ramos Quotes
Samuel Ramos was a Mexican philosopher and one of the principal exponents of philosophy of lo mexicano, the reflective inquiry into the character of Mexican national life that flourished in the second quarter of the twentieth century. A pupil of Antonio Caso and a careful reader of Adler, he produced the path-breaking Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico in 1934, in which he applied the categories of Adlerian psychology to an account of the Mexican character marked by an inferiority complex inherited from the colonial period. The quotes below are attributed to Samuel Ramos, organized by topic.
Samuel Ramos on Freedom
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“A people that knows itself can begin to free itself.”
Samuel Ramos on Knowledge
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“Education must form persons, not merely instruct minds.”
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“The task of philosophy in Mexico is the recovery of the Mexican.”
Samuel Ramos on Politics
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“The Mexican lives in the shadow of an inferiority complex inherited from history.”
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Attributed to Samuel Ramos:
“Imitation of foreign culture without self-knowledge is sterile.”