Philosophy's aim is not to paint new objects but to give their true color to familiar objects.
Quotes from Escolios a un Texto Implicito — Nicolás Gómez Dávila
1913–1994 Colombia
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To be civilized is to be able to criticize what we believe without ceasing to believe in it.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Contemporary political ideologies are false in what they affirm and true in what they deny.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The genuine reader is the one who reads for pleasure the books that others only study.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The modern tragedy is not the tragedy of reason defeated but of reason triumphant.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The writer who loves or hates is less persuasive than the one who loves and hates.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Civilization is a poorly fortified encampment in the midst of rebellious tribes.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The imagination is the only place in the universe where it is possible to live.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The wealthy man's sin isn't his wealth but the importance he attaches to it.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
It is easier to forgive certain dislikes than to share certain enthusiasms.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
To think like our contemporaries is a recipe for prosperity and stupidity.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The function of revolutions is to destroy the illusions that created them.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The one who renounces seems weak to the one incapable of renunciation.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
To have opinions is the best way to escape the obligation of thinking.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
"To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The itch to be original is an affectation caused by a lack of talent.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
The incoherent interlocutor is more irritating than the hostile one.
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicolás Gómez Dávila (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.