Nicolás Gómez Dávila Quotes

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The modernist object does not possess inner life; only internal conflicts.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The word "modern" no longer has an automatic prestige except among fools.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila
To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In general, "historical necessity" turns out to be merely a name for human stupidity.

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Clarity of text is the sole incontrovertible sign of the maturity of an idea.

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The criterion of "progress" between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill.

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"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.

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The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another's goods but the one who defends his own.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.

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

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If philosophy does not resolve any scientific problem, science, in its turn, does not resolve any philosophical problem.

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Whoever says that he "belongs to his time" is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment.

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The difference between "organic" and "mechanical" in social matters is a moral one: the "organic" is the result of innumerable humble acts; the "mechanical" is the result of one decisive act of arrogance.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila