Quotes by : Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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....

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not....

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

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

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

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

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.

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