Nicolás Gómez Dávila Quotes

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

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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.

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

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

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Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

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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.

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

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