History Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“To deny that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.” quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila — Download Open image

““To deny that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.””

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

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“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.”

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“The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.”

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“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official;…

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“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”

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“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

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“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa de las…

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“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.”

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“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.”

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“Every individual with “ideals” is a potential murderer.”

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Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

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“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

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