Samuel Ramos Quotes on Time
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 time, 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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“History of the Great Civil War, 1642–1649, Vol. I. 1642–1644 (1886), p. 12”
England, it has been said by one who, in our own days, has exhibited the old Puritan virtues to a world which had well-nigh forgotten them, has been saved by its adventurers—that is to say, by the men who, careless whether their ways are like the ways of others, or whether there may not be some larger interpretation of the laws by which the world is governed than any which they have themselves bee -
“To the historian no more interesting period can be found than one in which men of virtue and ability strove with one another in seeking the solution of the highest problems at a time when the old chain of precedent had been violently snapped, and when all things seemed possible to the active intelligence.”
p. vi -
“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