Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes
Top 73 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nicolas Gomez Davila
Nicolas Gomez Davila Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.
When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.
Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.
When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from
indifference toward the unique values which created it.
indifference toward the unique values which created it.
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.
In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.
The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.
In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.
The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.
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.
Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.
The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.
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.
An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
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.
Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.
The curve of man's knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets
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.
The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.
Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.
In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.