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Category: Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets

self, knowledge

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

ideas, ignorance-quotes

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

heaven, hell, hierarchy

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

belief, complexity, politics, problems, reactionary, solutions, thought

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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.

humanity, philosophy, postmodern-existence, society