Cecilio Juan Ramón del Carmen Acosta Revete (1 February 1818 – 8 July 1881), was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, lawyer, philosopher and humanist.

This is due to the solidity of his intellectual work in different areas of knowledge (such as law, sociology, history and lexicography) and his deeply ethical and stoic attitude towards the continuous abuses of authoritarianism and personalism, as styles of politics during the consolidation phase of the Venezuelan national state and even afterwards.

For him the Universe was home; his homeland, room; history, mother; and the men, brothers, and their pains family things, that ask him to cry.

Whoever gives himself to men is devoured by them, and he gave himself whole; but it is a wonderful law of nature that only what is given is complete; and one does not begin to possess life until we empty our own without hesitation and without charge for the good of others.

For example, the celebration of the bicentennials of Andrés Bello in 1981 and of Simón Bolívar in 1983, including the commemoration of the centenary of the death of Acosta in 1981.

Honors Acosta wrote about politics, jurisprudence, economics, history, obituaries, literature, philology, poetry and epistolary.

He maintained the idea of modernizing the education system from a decentralizing vision, that incorporated new disciplines of knowledge that should be accompanied by the practice of the workshop as a key word for the progress of the country and that Acosta calls him the 'true lord of a new civilization'.