Thoughts To Provoke Your Thoughts

The secret why other Asian neighbors are economically ahead of the Philippines is no secret at all. They have been substantiating to the ful...

If Rizal had retracted from his attacks against the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church, and if, according to his Catholic biogra...

Rizal’s biographer – Leon M. Guerrero, clearly notes that Rizal returned to the Church of his youth in extremes of self-abasement, frenziedl...

The shame in Rizal’s life is not the retraction of his deeds, writings or personal conduct. Such retraction was only a frailocratic figment ...

Rizal was a product of Ateneo and Santo Thomas; yet both Catholic universities continue to assassinate the character of this great humanist ...

Jose Rizal pointed out that evolution in education, ( not reliance on foreign investments ), is the best hope of the nation to enjoy the hig...

Rizal struggled not only against Spanish authority, but against superstition. He fought not in the battlefield, but in the minds of men and ...

After a hundred years, how influential has Jose Rizal been on the Filipino as a people? Millions today would readily give credence by listen...

Ninoy Aquino said: “The Filipino is worth dying for.” Well, Ninoy is a hero today. Filipinos killed him. Imagine Jose Rizal having said too:...

Rizal, indeed, was a great thinker. He clearly saw in his day what we vaguely see around us today: religion and diseases flourishing hand in...

The Spanish Catholic friars arrived in the Philippines bringing with them the holy bible and Christianity. They stole our land. Crushed our ...

Rizal never said or wrote: “It was my pride that ruined me.” Those words were put into the mouth of Rizal by his official prize-winning biog...

What kind of men needed to see Rizal dead, discarded and forgotten? Were they men of reason, logic, science or philosophy? Were they avid re...

A great Filipino is one who has had the intellect and the courage to put more sense where the theologians and the politicians in cahoots tog...

In his official biography of Rizal, Guerrero disclosed that the Spanish Catholic friars made a firm offer to Rizal the amount of 100,000 pes...

After six months of stay, he left for Europe for the second time on February 3,1888 to pursue the task he had set for himself. His brief sta...

India had Mahatma Gandhi. France had Voltaire. Germany had Nietzsche. Austria had Freud. China had Sun Yet Sen. England had Bertrand Russell...

“Great spirits have always found opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to h...

A man who has once perceived, however, temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of spirit, can no longer be happy if he allows ...

“As a consequence of the enormous social and technological changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working well. We do not live ...