“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Egalitarian Copy Share Image
“The West withers every non-Western soul that touches it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila West Copy Share Image
“Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Dissolving Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Truth Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Humanizing Copy Share Image
“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Communion Copy Share Image
“Every individual with “ideals” is a potential murderer.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Ideals 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
“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
“An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Atheist Copy Share Image
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows,… — Nicolas Gomez Davila Age Copy Share Image
“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Humanity Copy Share Image
“The idea of “the free development of personality” seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Individual personality Copy Share Image
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Dungeons Copy Share Image
“There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Ambition Copy Share Image
“Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Growth Copy Share Image
“The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Freedom 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 Contrary 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 Cities Turn 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 Disturbed 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 Answers 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
“Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Anthropologists 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
