Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz famous quotes

07-20-2025

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Study
Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Men #Evil #Soul
One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Cooking #Supper #Wells
I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Imagine #Walks #Pens
And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Cooking #Secret #Details
O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Religion #Pay #Morality
Rare is he who will concede genius.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Genius
In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Loss #Treasure #Lost
In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Vanity #Opinion
Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Night #Sight #Forever
As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Love #Distance #Unions
Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Receiving #Size #Vessel
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Escaping #Poor #Poor Me
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Genius #Handsome #Reason
Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Philosophy #Kitchen #Details
The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?
-- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

#Pain #Evil #Path

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