Frases de José de la Luz y Caballero
“Antes quisiera ver yo desplomadas, no digo las instituciones de los hombres, sino las estrellas todas del firmamento, que ver caer del pecho humano el sentimiento de la justicia, ese sol del mundo moral”. Jose de la Luz y Caballero
Mientras tanto hay millones, que por ignorantes, por ciegos o por sus propias envidias, frustraciones y odios, se dejan manipular por algun que otro con las mismas desvirtudes, o defectos ,pero quien sabe mucho mejor como usar la demagogia para hacer que lo sigan y luego hasta los fanatiza para mantener siempre el control sobre esos millones de titeres...envidiosos, frustrados, llenos de envidias y odios hacia los que puedieron triunfar...ESA ES LA BASE de la perfidia que invade a los que no lograron salir adelante en la vida...usan luego el alibi : ""es que queremos un mundo mejor"" ..Pero lo que no dicen es que ese ""mundo mejor"" ES EL QUE DESEAN PARA SI MISMOS...Fanaticos rabiosos y deshonestos hasta con si mismos..! Por eso le doy siempre razon a aquel filosofo y maestro cubano : don Luz y Caballero... quien dijo : ""LA ENVIDIA ES MIL VECES PEOR QUE LA METRALLA.""
José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero (July 11, 1800 – June 22, 1862)
was a Cuban scholar, acclaimed by José Martí as "the father ... the silent layer of foundations" in Cuban intellectual life of the 19th Century
(see "Un magno artículo de Martí", in
Aforismos de Luz y Caballero Havana, 1960, p. 139). Interest in Luz's work was revived around the time of the Cuban Revolution, and new editions of his work published, as he was regarded as a source of intellectual autonomy for the country.
Luz took his degree in philosophy in 1817 at the Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo in Havana, and took a degree in law at the Seminario de San Carlos. From 1837 to 1841, he travelled extensively in North America and Europe, coming into contact with a number of important intellectuals of the time, including Sir Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Georges Cuvier, the German philosopher Karl Krause, and the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Krause paid a public tribute to Luz's scientific and philosophical views. With Humboldt, Luz arranged to establish a magnetic observatory in Cuba in correspondence with like institutions in Germany.
Caballero is perhaps best known for his often quoted characterization of Humboldt, who travelled in Cuba in the early 19th century, as the "second discoverer" of the island, after Columbus: “Colón dio a Europa un Nuevo Mundo; Humboldt se lo hizo conocer en lo físico, en lo material, en lo intellectual y lo moral” ("Columbus gave Europe a New World; Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects").On his return to Cuba in 1831, Luz devoted all his time and energies to the cause of education, assuming the direction of a college from 1834 until 1839. In 1848 he founded the "El Salvador" school.Among his works are a translation of Volney's Travels in Egypt and Syria, with notes and additions (Paris, 1829); Siegling's Public Prisons and their Reforms, from the German (1837); and numerous memoirs and pamphlets on educational, scientific, and philosophical subjects. There are several biographies of La Luz, one being that in Spanish by José Ignacio Rodriguez (New York, 1874).
References PLEASE SEE MORE AT WIKIPEDIA !
Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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