“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Conformism Copy Share Image
“When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Contemporaries Copy Share Image
“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Individual Copy Share Image
“The political presence of the masses always culminates in a hellish apocalypse.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Apocalypse Copy Share Image
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Church Copy Share Image
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding — Nicolas Gomez Davila Esteem Copy Share Image
“The modern mentality is the child of human pride puffed up by commercial advertising.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Advertising Copy Share Image
“Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.” — Nicólas Gómez Dávila Community Copy Share Image
“By means of the notion of “cultural evolution,” the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Anthropologist Copy Share Image
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone… — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply… — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The contemporary anthropologist, under democrats' severe gaze, skips quickly over ethnic differences like over hot coals.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Anthropologist Copy Share Image
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“To deny that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila History Copy Share Image
“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Dogma Copy Share Image
“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Civilization Copy Share Image
The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that… — Nicolas Gomez Davila Coherence Copy Share Image
“The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Egalitarian Copy Share Image
“Ethical rules vary; honour does not change. A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Character Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Civilization Copy Share Image
“Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Freedom Copy Share Image
“Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Individual rights Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Christ Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Life Copy Share Image
