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....

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,”....

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

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

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.....

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....

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.