Quotes by : Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves....

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man....

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the....

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

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

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

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold....

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

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards,....