59 Quotes by Nicolas Gomez Davila

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

A confused idea attracts a fool like a flame attracts an insect.

Men disagree less because they think differently than because they do not think.

Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom.

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets

To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.It is to aspire to a certain quality of writing.Even when no one reads us. *Posterity is not the whole of future generations. It is a small group of men with taste, a proper upbringing, and erudition, in each generation.

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

«La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».

The reactionary’s objection is not discussed; it is disdained.