59 Quotes by Nicolas Gomez Davila

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.

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

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

Ideologies were invented so that men who do not think can give their opinions.

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out.Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy.At once repugnant and oppressive.