Samuel Ramos Quotes on Mind
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Samuel Ramos on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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:
“Education must form persons, not merely instruct minds.”
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“The more of a student he is—and no one can be a historian without being a very devoted student—the more he is removed from that intimate contact with men of all classes and of all modes of thought, from which the statesman derives by far the greater part of that knowledge of mankind which enables him to give useful play to his imaginative power for their benefit.”
p. viii -
“Unless the historian can feel an affectionate as well as an intelligent interest in the personages with whom he deals, he will hardly discover the key to the movements of the society of which they formed a part. The statesman, too, will be none the worse if, in studying the past, he is reminded that his predecessors had to deal with actual men and women in their complex nature, and if thereby he learns that pity for the human race which was the inspiring thought of the New Atlantis , and which is the source of all true and noble effort.”
p. x