Escolios a una texto implícito Quotes

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad.
The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Scholia to an Implicit Text

“There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Progress ages badly.
Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model.
Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday’s progressive.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out.

Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy.

At once repugnant and oppressive.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships.
Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Reading is an unsurpassable drug, because more than just the mediocrity of our lives, it allows us to escape the mediocrity of our souls.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil.
(La más ominosa de las perversiones modernas es la vergüenza de parecer ingenuos si no coqueteamos con el mal.)”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Every individual with “ideals” is a potential murderer.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions.
Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward.
When they interrogate him in public, he denies being a Galilean.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Al repudiar los ritos, el hombre se reduce a animal que copula y come.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“To deny that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Two hundred years ago it was permissible to trust in the future without being totally stupid.
But today, who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday’s splendid future?”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“The near future will probably bring extraordinary catastrophes, but what threatens the world most certainly is not the violence of ravenous crowds, but the weariness of boring masses.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“The idea of “the free development of personality” seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección