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Quotes from Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

1913–1994 Colombia

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In general, "historical necessity" turns out to be merely a name for human stupidity.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

Whoever says that he "belongs to his time" is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

The modernist object does not possess inner life; only internal conflicts.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

"Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies."

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

The criterion of "progress" between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

If philosophy does not resolve any scientific problem, science, in its turn, does not resolve any philosophical problem.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

Clarity of text is the sole incontrovertible sign of the maturity of an idea.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

The word "modern" no longer has an automatic prestige except among fools.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

Individualism is the cradle of vulgarity.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.

Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)

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.