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Nicolás Gómez Dávila Quotes

1913–1994 Colombia

Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century. He became known during the last few years of his life, particularly through German translations of his works.

Colombia
Philosophers

Also known as: Escolios a un Texto Implicito

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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)

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.” The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense. The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.

Escolios A Un Texto Implícito: Selección (2001)

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)

The difference between "organic" and "mechanical" in social matters is a moral one: the "organic" is the result of innumerable humble acts; the "mechanical" is the result of one decisive act of arrogance.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

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