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Colombian
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Philosopher
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Writer
May 18, 1913
Colombian
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Philosopher
&
Writer
May 18, 1913
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila