Nicolás Gómez Dávila
@DColacho
Aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila, aka Don Colacho. Managed by @matthewschmitz & @williamrandolph.
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Writing is the only way to distance oneself from the century in which it was one’s lot to be born.
about the divinity of Christ and the existence of God. [2/3]
Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts [1/3]
The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
Envy tends to be the true force behind moral indignation.
What is important is not that man believe in the existence of God; what is important is that God exist.
The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.
From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ. [6/6]
The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin. [5/6]
an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing. [4/6]
The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual [3/6]
the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect. [2/6]
In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, [1/6]
The voter does not even vote for what he wants; he only votes for what he thinks he wants.
It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities-it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.
The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another’s duty. [3/3]
so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law. [2/3]
As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, [1/3]
Nobody in politics can foresee the consequences either of what he destroys, or of what he constructs.
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