Nicolás Gómez Dávila Quotes

Technology does not fulfill man’s perennial dreams, but craftily mimics them.

Envejecer es catástrofe del cuerpo que nuestra cobardía convierte en catástrofe del alma. (p. 21)

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

Those who proclaim that the noble is despicable end up by proclaiming that the despicable is noble.

Imitation, in the arts, is less harmful than rules.

Egalitarian ideas distort our perception of the present and, in addition, mutilate our vision of the past.

To refuse to wonder is the mark of the beast.

The genuine reader is the one who reads for pleasure the books that others only study.

Whoever betrays us never forgives us for his act of betrayal.

An individual declares himself a member of some group or other with the goal of demanding in its name what he is ashamed to claim in his own name.

History is a series of nights and days. Short days and protracted nights.

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

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

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

The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.