Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.”

“Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.”

“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.”

“Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.”

“In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.”

“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.”

“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.”

“To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.”

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

“Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.”

“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.”

“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”

“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.”

“In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.”

“In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.”