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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.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The ability to consume pornography is the distinctive characteristic of the imbecile.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few beings.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
In society just as in the soul,
when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from
indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
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.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Useless, like a revolution.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Only he lives his life who observes it, thinks it, and says it; the rest let life live them.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The reactionary's objection is not discussed; it is disdained.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The curve of man's knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The French Revolution has been the highest wave of the Gnostic tide.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Stupidity is the fuel of revolutions.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila