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Quotes from Escolios a un Texto Implicito — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

1913–1994 Colombia

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Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

If we believe in God, we should not say "I believe in God," but "God believes in me."

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

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.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

An individual declares himself a member of some group or other with the goal of demanding in its name what he is ashamed to claim in his own name.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

Every goal other than God dishonors us.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

God is a nuisance for modern man.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

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.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

Politics is the pastime of empty souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

Philosophy is a literary genre.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

With God there are only individuals.

Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicolás Gómez Dávila (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.