“There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Graduation 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
“Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Freedom Copy Share Image
“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Creativity Copy Share Image
“Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Adversity Copy Share Image
“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Art Copy Share Image
“Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man’s goals, but the names he gives to his goals.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Goals Copy Share Image
“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Poetry Copy Share Image
“Now, even though it be neither necessity nor caprice, history, for the authentic reactionary, is not, for all that, an interior dialectic… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Freedom Copy Share Image
“The political presence of the masses always culminates in a hellish apocalypse.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Politics Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Summer Copy Share Image
“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Ideology Copy Share Image
“Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Modern man Copy Share Image
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Campaigns Copy Share Image
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Doe Copy Share Image
