Nicolás Gómez Dávila Quotes

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.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

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.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.