“Every individual with “ideals” is a potential murderer.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Ideals 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
“Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Truth Copy Share Image
“The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Anarchy 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
“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
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
“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
“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Books Copy Share Image
“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Amor Copy Share Image
“The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions. Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward. When they interrogate… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Human rights 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
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Politics Copy Share Image
“La revolución es progresista y busca el robustecimiento del estado; la rebelión es reaccionaria y busca su desvanecimiento. El revolucionario es un… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Revolution 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
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Charity Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Civilizations Copy Share Image
“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Poetry Copy Share Image
“There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Diploma Copy Share Image
“A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Impatience Copy Share Image
“Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Consequences Copy Share Image
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Campaigns Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Egalitarian Copy Share Image
“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Art 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
“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Individual Copy Share Image
“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Contemporaries 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
