Nicolás Gómez Dávila Quotes
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.
The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets
The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.
The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it.
The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.
The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.
To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.
Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.
In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.
Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.
In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.
In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason, ” “progress, ” alcohol, work.
