What is the distinction

between symbolism and

national symbol?
•Symbolism means an artistic and poetic
style using representational images and
indirect suggestion to express mystical
ideas, emotions, and states of
mind (Dictionary, 2020). Meanwhile,
the national symbol intends to unite
people by creating visual, verbal, or iconic
representations of the national people,
values, goals, or history (Wikipedia, 2020).
•The Congress of the
Philippines is the sole power of
giving statutes for national
symbols. 
Rizal left famous quotations and
maxims used by his compatriots and
are being used even up to this era to
teach or philosophize our
countrymen, are as follows:
1.   "Travel is a caprice in childhood, a
passion in youth, a necessity in manhood,
and an elegy in old age." (in Chua, 2019)

2.   "Filipinos don't realize that victory is

the child of struggle, that joy blossoms
from suffering, and redemption is a
product of sacrifice." (in Chua, 2019)
Romans 5:3-5
• 3 Not only so, but we[a] also glory in our
sufferings, because we know that suffering
produces perseverance; 4 perseverance,
character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does
not put us to shame, because God’s love has
been poured out into our hearts through the
Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
3.   "Without education and liberty, which are the
soil and the sun of man, no reform is possible; no
measure can give the result desired." (in Chua, 2019)

4.   "Ignorance is servitude, because as a man

thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself
and allowed himself to be guided by the thought of
another is like the beast led by a halter." (in Chua,
2019)
5.   "One only dies once, and if one does not
die well, a good opportunity is lost and will
not present itself again." (in Chua, 2019)

6.   "Justice is the foremost virtue of the

civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous
nations, while injustice arouses the
weakest." (in Chua, 2019)
7.   "Why independence, if the slaves of today will be
the tyrants of tomorrow?" (El Filibusterismo, in
quotes.net, 2021)

8.   "Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's

point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy
of it. And when the people reach that height, God will
provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny
will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will
shine out like the first dawn." (in Chua, 2019)