Of God one doesn't speak with any precision or seriousness except in poetry.
Quotes from Escolios a un Texto Implicito — Nicolás Gómez Dávila
1913–1994 Colombia
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Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
To be authentically modern is, in each and every age, a sign of mediocrity.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
No public cause deserves the unlimited allegiance of an intelligent man.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
In the idiom of modern architecture nothing complicated can be said.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Modern man destroys more when he builds than when he destroys.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
An "ideal society" would be the graveyard of human greatness.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Only the problems of his time seem important to the fool.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
There is an illiteracy of the soul that no diploma cures.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Every non-hierarchical society is divided in two.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Spiritual maturity begins when we stop feeling like we have to take care of the world.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The importance of an event is inversely proportional to the space which the newspapers devote to it.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
It is unjust to reproach the writers of today with bad taste, when the very notion of taste is dead.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The supreme aristocrat is not the feudal lord in his castle but the contemplative monk in his cell.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Those who proclaim that the noble is despicable end up by proclaiming that the despicable is noble.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The number of votes which elect a ruler is not a measure of his legitimacy but of his mediocrity.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicolás Gómez Dávila (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.