Nicolás Gómez Dávila Quotes
The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.
The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, t...
Show MoreBeing a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of ...
Show MoreSwimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dun...
Show MoreModern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his du...
Show MoreLiberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he ...
Show MoreEverything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.
Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined ...
Show MoreThe curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterward...
Show MoreTo demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in...
Show MoreHierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.
The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.
In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the ...
Show MoreIt is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the r...
Show MoreMany love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.
In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to...
Show MorePhrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric wav...
Show MoreThe individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold...
Show MoreIn the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress...
Show MoreThe greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward ...
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