5. •He started La Liga
Filipina with the job of
enlightening the
minds of the people.
6. •Believed in Agnostic
Deism – the view that
God created the universe
with its law, never to
interfere with it again.
7. •“Human problems are
irrational human creations
and can be solved through
rational solutions. If reason
commits mistakes, only
reason can correct them.”
8. •“What is the use of
independence if the
slaves of today will be
the tyrants of
tomorrow?”
15. •He capitalized on the idea
of a free reign of reason, of
the freedom to think and
do, rather than the
freedom to will and do.
(Gripaldo, 2002)
16. •“In a colonial situation where
both will and thinking are
suppressed, where intellectual
fanaticism is the rule, where one’s
will is conditioned to submit to
tyranny, it is intellectual liberty
that comes primary.”
17. •Filipinos must get rid
of slavery; must
embrace liberty again
with a price, a bloody
revolution.
29. •“Human rights cannot
be guaranteed unless
the citizens first do
their obligations
towards the state.”
30. •“Good governance is
founded on righteousness
and foreign relations must be
based on full reciprocal rights
and privileges between and
among nations.”