59 Quotes by Nicolas Gomez Davila

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

The facility with which industrial capitalism constructs and destroys—obeying clear precepts of profitability—transforms the average man into an intellectual, moral, and physical nomad.Whatever is permanent today is an obstacle.

Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world.Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it.

The three hypostasis of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism. The democratic trinity.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.

Nietzsche wäre der einzige adlige Bewohner einer verlassenen Welt.Nur seine Option könnte sich ohne Scham der Auferstehung Gottes aussetzen.

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