#1,371

Man believes he is lost among facts, when he is only caught in the web of his own definitions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,370

Artificially fomenting greed, in order to become rich by satisfying it, is the unforgiveable sin of capitalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,369

Modern society only respects science as an inexhaustible provider of what it covets.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,368

To the happiness of those we love most we are allowed to contribute only a silent tenderness and an impotent compassion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,367

By believing that the wax figures fabricated by psychology are alive, man has been gradually losing his knowledge of man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,366

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has.
When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,365

Culture presumes that we will die educating ourselves, at whatever age we pass away.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,364

A soul is noble not when nothing injures it, but when it heals quickly.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,363

An abrupt demographic expansion rejuvenates society and makes its stupidities recrudesce.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,362

To understand is to find confirmation of something previously divined.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,361

When he died, Christ did not leave behind documents, but disciples.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,360

Whereas the Protestant depends on a text, we Catholics are the process where the text was born.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,359

That the gospels are a reflection of the primitive Church is a thesis a Catholic can accept.
But lethal for Protestantism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,358

On the wide-open steppe the individual finds no protection against the inclemency of nature, nor in egalitarian society against the inclemency of man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 233

#1,357

Philosophy does not have the task of transforming a world that is transformed all by itself.
But of judging that transformed world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,356

Languages were corrupted yesterday thanks to ignorant peasants.
Today they are corrupted by the pedantry and carelessness of the uncultivated specialist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,355

When we accept our mediocrity with good humor, the disinterestedness with which we take joy in another’s intelligence almost makes us intelligent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,354

Imagination withers away in a society whose cities lack gardens enclosed by high walls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,353

Glory, for the authentic artist, is not the sound of praise, but the terrible silence of the instant when he believed he hit his mark.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,352

If men were born equal, they would invent inequality to kill boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,351

Order is a deception.
But disorder is not a solution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,350

Let us not complain of the soil in which we were born, but rather of the plant we are.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,349

As long as the entertainment is sufficiently vulgar, nobody protests.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,348

There is no truth which it is not licit to strangle if it would harm someone we love.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,347

It is never too late for anything truly important.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,346

It never occurs to the intellectual who is indignant at the “embourgeoisement of the proletariat” to renounce those things whose enjoyment by the proletariat horrifies him as proof of embourgeoisement.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,345

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,344

Decadence does not derive from an excess of civilization, but from the attempt to take advantage of civilization in order to elude the prohibitions of which it consists.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,343

The new left gathers together those who acknowledge the ineffectiveness of the cure without ceasing to believe in the prescription.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,342

To speak of the eternal, it is sufficient to speak with talent of the things of the day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,341

Let us respect the two poles of man: concrete individual, human spirit.
But not the middle zone of an animal with opinions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,340

Vulgar dreams are fulfilled here.
But those which the adolescent dreams under the oppressive foliage of summer do not build their nests here.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,339

Imagination is the capacity to perceive, through the senses, the attributes of the object which the senses do not perceive.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,338

Our tolerance grows with our disdain.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,337

The rapid evolution of a society destroys its customs.
And imposes on the individual, in place of the silent education of traditions, the reins and the whip of laws.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,336

Intellectual honesty is a virtue which every successive generation presumes it is practicing for the first time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,335

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,334

Reason is no substitute for faith, just as color is no substitute for sound.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,333

Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities.
When confrontedy by the bull’s horns of a concrete case, they all look like Anglo-Saxon bullfighters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,332

Civilizations differ radically among themselves.
From civilization to civilization, however, the few civilized men acknowledge each other with a discreet smile.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,331

As a consequence of technological advances, the old prophets of catastrophes are giving way to the witnesses of catastrophes that were already predicted.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,330

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently.
Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,329

Each day we demand more from society so that we can demand less from ourselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,328

Modern man treats the universe like a lunatic treats an idiot.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,327

The progressive’s cardinal syllogism is simply beautiful: the best always triumphs, because what triumphs is called the best.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,326

The intellectual tragedy of the democratic ruler is the obligation to enact the program he publicly proclaimed so that he would be elected.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,325

Reactionaries are recruited from among the front-row spectators of a revolution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,324

Grave problems never frighten the fool.
Those men who are disquieted, for example, by the qualitative deterioration of a society, make him laugh.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,323

Political blunders repeat themselves, because they are the expression of human nature.
Successes do not repeat themselves, because they are the gift of history.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,322

Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,321

Art is the supreme sensual pleasure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,320

Yesterday’s bourgeois forgave himself everything, if his sexual conduct was strict.
Today’s forgives himself everything, if it is promiscuous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,319

The standard-bearers of liberty celebrated by the 19th century ended up as the vanguard of industrial despotism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,318

The right to command was the central subject of politics, yesterday.
The techniques of seizing command are, today, the central subject of politics.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,317

The laws of biology alone do not have fingers delicate enough to fashion the beauty of a face.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,316

We believe in many things in which we do not believe we believe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,315

God invented tools, the devil machines.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,314

We can paint the decadence of a society, but it is impossible to define it.
Like the increasing dementia of a look.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,313

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.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,312

Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,311

Defeats are never final when they are accepted with good humor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,310

The recluse is humanity’s delegate to what is important.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,309

Social problems cannot be solved.
But we can ameliorate them by preventing our determination to alleviate just one from aggravating them all.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,308

Each suppressed taboo makes human existence recede toward the dullness of instinct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,307

Unanimity, in a classless society, results not from the absence of classes, but from the presence of the police.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,306

Museums are the invention of a mankind that has no place for works of art, either in its home, or in its life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,305

Our contemporaries denigrate the past so that they do not commit suicide out of shame and nostalgia.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,304

Those who wield a sociological vocabulary imagine they have understood because they have classified.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,303

The leftist, like the polemicist of yesteryear, believes he refutes an opinion by accusing the holder of that opinion of immorality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,302

The individual is not a crossroads, but the mysterious calvary erected there.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,301

Everything, in the individual, comes forth from the intersection of space and time.
Except the individual himself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,300

Modern society’s lack of confidence in the future, reserved until yesterday to the intelligent man, today weighs down even on the imbecile.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,299

Imagination, if it were creative, would be simply fantasy.
Imagination is perception of what escapes ordinary perception.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,298

Stupidity is the mother of revolutionary atrocities.
Savageness is only the godmother.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,297

The reactionary does not yearn for the futile restoration of the past, but for the improbable rupture of the future with this sordid present.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,296

When the notion of duty expels that of vocation, society becomes peopled with disfigured souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 223

#1,295

Ratiocinations carry themselves with more airs, grow more haughty, walk with more insolence, the further they distance themselves from their origin.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 223

#1,294

Everyone examines a ratiocination more carefully than the evidence sustaining it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 223

#1,293

When the exploiters disappear, the exploited split into exploiters and exploited.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 223

#1,292

The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions.
Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward.
When they interrogate him in public, he denies being a Galilean.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 223

#1,291

Whoever inquires into the causes of a revolution should never infer them from its effects.
Between the causes of a revolution and its effects are whirlwinds of accidents.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 223

#1,290

Nothing softens up the bourgeois more than a revolutionary from a foreign country.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,289

Christianity, when it abolishes its ancient liturgical languages, degenerates into strange, uncouth sects.
Once contact is broken with Greek and Latin antiquity, once its medieval and patristic inheritance is lost, any simpleton turns into its exegete.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,288

No folktale ever began this way: Once upon a time, there was a president…

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,287

Great intellectual tasks are not accomplished by one who deliberately undertakes them, but by one who modestly seeks to resolve personal problems.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,286

Ideas become frightened and emigrate from where people decide to think in teams.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,285

The modern state is a teacher who never grants his students a degree.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,284

The more complex the functions which the state assumes, the more subordinate the bureaucrats on whom the citizen’s fortune depends.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,283

Scholasticism sinned by seeking to turn the Christian into a know-it-all.
The Christian is a skeptic who trusts in Christ.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,282

The human swarm returns submissively to the collective beehive when the night of a culture draws near.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,281

Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over.
And every origin is bloody.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,280

Let us not attribute to the intellect the catastrophes caused by the covetousness that blinds us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,279

Where is the world headed?
Toward the same transcience from which it comes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,278

Modern society tramples liberties underfoot, like a column of tanks tramples a procession of pious women.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,277

The “fatherland,” without any nationalistic bombast, is only the area which an individual contemplates around him after having climbed a hill.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,276

The people believes in the disinterestedness of its professional benefactors until they pass the bill to the people.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,275

Only the soul of the contemplative does not die before the body.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,274

The mediocrity of any triumph does not deserve that we besmirch ourselves with the qualities it demands of us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,273

When society is cast entirely in the mold of the state, the person vaporizes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,272

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything.
Only looks not thrown out of focus by pride attain that lucid vision of the world which confirms what we preach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,271

Virtue has become less rare than good breeding.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,270

Modern man will never admit that a stupid idea shared by many is not respectable but merely dreadful.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,269

The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out.
Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy.
At once repugnant and oppressive.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,268

Culture lives from being a diversion and dies from being a profession.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,267

In literature laughter dies quickly, but the smile is immortal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,266

For the democrat it is not enough that we respect what he wants to do with his life; he demands, in addition, that we respect what he wants to do with our life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,265

The religious problem grows worse each day because the faithful are not theologians and the theologians are not faithful.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,264

Values, like souls for the Christian, are born in history but are immortal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,263

Reactionary thought has been accused of irrationalism because it refuses to sacrifice the canons of reason to the prejudices of the day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,262

We call “origins” the limits of our science.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,261

The aged progressive is nostalgic, like an old flirt.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,260

A sensual object is one that reveals its soul to the senses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,259

Let us investigate where and when a new mentality is born, but let us resign ourselves to not knowing why.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,258

One must learn to be partial without being unjust.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,257

We only know how to carry ourselves with decency in front of the world when we know that we are owed nothing.
Without the pained grimace of a frustrated creditor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,256

Literature does not die because nobody writes, but when everybody writes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,255

Democrats can be divided into those who believe wickedness is curable and those who deny it exists.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,254

Communication between men becomes difficult when ranks disappear.
Individuals do not extend their hands to each other when walking in a crowd, but rather elbow each other.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 217

#1,253

The democrat attributes his errors to circumstances.
We thank chance for what we got right.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 217

#1,252

Stupidity fuels revolutions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 217

#1,251

The progressive clergyman, in revolutionary periods, ends up dead, but not as a martyr.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 217

#1,250

The defeated reactionary always retains the option of entertaining himself with the victor’s simplistic ideas.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 217

#1,249

Modern souls do not even become corrupted; they become rusty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 217

#1,248

In societies where the social position, instead of adhering to the person, constitutes merely a temporary commission, envy bursts out of the gate.
“La carriere ouverte aux talents” is the racetrack of envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 217

#1,247

Strictly speaking, there is nothing new in the world except each new soul.
The newness of things, therefore, is nothing more than the dye in which they are soaked by the soul they come across.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 216

#1,246

May God preserve us from purity, in all fields.
From the mother of political terrorism, from religious sectarianism, from ethical severity, from aesthetic sterility, from philosophical stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 216

#1,245

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science.
But he screams when they exterminate him as such.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 216

#1,244

Let us not blame technology for the misfortunes caused by our incapacity to invent a technology of technology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 216

#1,243

Every revolution exacerbates the evils against which it breaks out.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 216

#1,242

The readers of an illustrious author can be divided into two groups: those who admire him without reading him and those who disdain him without having read him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 216

#1,241

A work of politics is unrepeatable, like a work of art, and equally capable of the same eternity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,240

Where we hear today the words “order, authority, tradition,” somebody is lying.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,239

The writer should be only his own spokesman.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,238

Neither a revolutionary's eloquence, nor love letters, can be read by third parties without laughing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,237

Intransigence in politics tends to be an affectation making up for personal weaknesses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,236

Springtime is the dream of the eternal autumn of the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,235

The universe is a useless dictionary for someone who does not provide his own grammar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,234

Believing is more akin to groping than to hearing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,233

A voice drunk with happiness is a fact that reveals secrets about the very substance of the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 215

#1,232

The happiness of the being we love is the only earthly good that satisfies us beyond measure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,231

Nothing is more comical than to adduce names of famous believers like a certificate proving God’s existence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,230

The media today allow the modern citizen to find out about everything without understanding anything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,229

Today there is no one for whom to fight.
Only against whom to fight.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,228

A bureaucratic destiny awaits revolutionaries, like the sea awaits rivers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,227

People more easily allow us to despise their serious occupations than their diversions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,226

Modern stupidities are more irritating than ancient stupidities because their proselytes seek to justify them in the name of reason.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,225

Evil promises what it cannot deliver on.
Good delivers on what it does not know how to promise.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,224

If we do not have hierarchies, we are eventually unjust with everything.
Even with what we were, or what we are.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

#1,223

The percentage of eligible voters who abstain from voting measures the degree of concrete liberty in a democracy.
Where liberty is fictitious, or where it is threatened, the percentage tends toward zero.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

#1,222

If we do not analyze, we will not understand.
But let us not presume that we have understood just because we have analyzed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

#1,221

To be effective, the abuse of power presupposes the anonymity of the oppressor or the anonymity of the oppressed.
Despotisms fail when unmistakable faces confront each other.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

#1,220

To innovate in liturgical matters is not sacrilege, but stupidity.
Man only venerates immemorial routines.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

#1,219

Ideologies were invented so that men who do not think can give their opinions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

#1,218

Authentic social transformations are not the work of frustration and envy, but the consequences of epidemics of disgust and boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212

#1,217

The modern world appears invincible.
Like the extinct dinosaurs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212

#1,216

Nothing guarantees man that what he invents will not kill him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212

#1,215

“To die” and “to disappear” are not synonyms when speaking of a nation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212

#1,214

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature.
Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history.

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Liturgical incense is the oxygen of the soul.

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The gods are peasants who accompany man only up to the gates of large cities.

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Civilization is in agony when agriculture forsakes being a way of life in order to become an industry.

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Universal history is the story of lost opportunities.

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The value of an emotion is independent of the idea, surely mediocre, in which it is expressed, as well as of the object, probably trivial, which provokes it.

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Today’s conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy.

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Revolutions destroy nothing of nations except their souls.

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The irreplaceability of the individual is the teaching of Christianity and the postulate of historiography.

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An illustrious author is not one whom many people read, but one whom many people believe they have read.

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To depend on God is the being’s being.

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To be modern is to view another’s death without emotion and never to think of one’s own.

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With the appearance of “rational” relations among individuals the process of a society’s decay begins.

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Fools worry about nothing but spelling and forget syntax.

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There is no fool’s opinion that is not worth hearing, but also none that is worth honoring.

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Even the farthest right of any right always seems too far to the left for me.

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Without an enemy on the borders the ruler forgets to be prudent.

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We presume we can explain history, and yet we fail before the mystery of the person we know best.

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Boredom is the antonym of solitude.

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The simplistic ideas in which the unbeliever ends up believing are his punishment.

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What is called the modern mentality is the process of exonerating the deadly sins.

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No paradise will arise within the bounds of time.
Because good and evil are not threads braided by history, but fibers of the only thread which sin spun for us.

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Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.

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