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Quotes from Escolios A Un Texto Implícito: Selección — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

1913–1994 Colombia

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Aging is a catastrophe of the body which our cowardice turns into a catastrophe of the soul.

Escolios A Un Texto Implícito: Selección (2001)

Technology does not fulfill man’s perennial dreams, but craftily mimics them.

Escolios A Un Texto Implícito: Selección (2001)

En lugar de humanizar la técnica el moderno prefiere tecnificar al hombre. (p. 123)

Escolios A Un Texto Implícito: Selección (2001)

Technology would present fewer dangers if manipulating it were not so simple for the imbecile and so profitable for the thief.

Escolios A Un Texto Implícito: Selección (2001)

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)

Attribution

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