Escolios a Un Texto Implicito Quotes

“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from
indifference toward the unique values which created it.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sensibility. (I, 258)”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences his intentions effectively include.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the
walls of his dungeon.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Sólo las letras antiguas curan la sarna moderna.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Quisiéramos no acariciar el cuerpo que amamos, sino ser la caricia.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“The increasing disintegration of the person can be measured by comparing the expression “amorous adventure,” which was in style in the 18th century, with the expression “sexual experience,” which is used in the 20th century.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“The existence of the authentic reactionary is usually a scandal to the progressive. His presence causes a vague discomfort. In the face of the reactionary attitude the progressive experiences a slight scorn, accompanied by surprise and restlessness. In order to soothe his apprehensions, the progressive is in the habit of interpreting this unseasonable and shocking attitude as a guise for self-interest or as a symptom of stupidity; but only the journalist, the politician, and the fool are not secretly flustered before the tenacity with which the loftiest intelligences of the West, for the past one hundred fifty years, amass objections against the modern world.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implícito

“«La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo es pegarse un balazo en el alma.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“Ni cristianismo ni paganismo, enseñan éticas altruistas. Tanto la moral cristiana, como la moral pagana, son individualismos éticos, que imponen deberes sociales, tan
solo como medios de nuestra perfección terrestre o de nuestra salvación enigmática.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“The “ivory tower” has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“No pertenezco a un mundo que perece.
Prolongo y transmito una verdad que no muere.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa

“No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implícito. Vol. I e II

“El gran arte literario está en presentar con plenitud plástica lo inefable.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implícito. Vol. I e II

“En los subterráneos del alma, como en los desvanes de las casas viejas, no se encuentran sino ratones muertos entre muebles rotos.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implícito. Vol. I e II