#1,783

No one is important for a long time without becoming a fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#1,782

A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#1,781

Humanity is the only totally false god.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#1,780

The most serious charge against the modern world is its architecture.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#1,779

The look of any intelligent man makes any dignitary stumble.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#1,778

Rigid moralism dulls the ethical sensibility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,777

Intelligence is enabled to discover new truths by rediscovering old truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,776

Religious austerity fascinates; ethical severity repels.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,775

Modern man is less proud than presumptuous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,774

The sacrifice of the Mass today is the torturing of the liturgy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,773

To educate is not to transmit instructions, but rather aversions and fervors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,772

Sin ceases to seem like a fiction when we have been slapped in the face by its aesthetic vulgarity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,771

To one who anxiously asks what is to be done today, let us honestly answer that today all that is possible is an impotent lucidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,770

How to read is the last thing one learns.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,769

Modern luxury disarms envy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,768

To unleash great catastrophes today, great ambitions are not required; the accumulation of small envies is enough.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,767

The man who is disrespectful in order to demonstrate his equality certifies his inferiority.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,766

The distances between nations, social classes, cultures, and races, are a little thing.
The fault line runs between the plebeian mind and the patrician mind.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,765

The biographer should not confuse his obligation to tell us the how of his subject with the ridiculous pretension of explaining to us the why.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,764

The stage of history has become stifling.
From the unlimited prehistoric spaces we have arrived at the possible ubiquity of the most trivial event.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,763

The surest ways of winning are more disastrous than any defeat.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,762

Moribund cultures try to survive by imitating themselves systematically or by radically innovating.
Spiritual health lies, on the contrary, in prolonging without imitating and in innovating without abolishing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,761

The metic’s fascinated imitation is the solvent of cultures.
A culture, in fact, does not perish by absorbing exotic elements, but rather by being assimilated and spread by foreign minds.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,760

The cost of progress is calculated in fools.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,759

Few people do not need circumstances to complicate their souls a little.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,758

In order to make the technician devote all his attention to his job, industrial society, without disfiguring his skull, compresses his brain.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,757

Metaphysical problems do not haunt man so that he will solve them, but so that he will live them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,756

The soul is only forged under the pressure of innumerable atmospheres of dreams.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,755

The definition locates the object, but only the description captures it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,754

News stories are the substitute for truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,753

Reducing another’s thought to its supposed motives prevents us from understanding it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,752

There is always a Thermopylae in which to die.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,751

The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,750

Everything that has value in the world is incongruous to it, and the world does not drag it along into the sunset.
Our past happinesses await us at the end of the day’s journey to anoint our injured feet.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,749

The steps of grace startle us like the steps of a passerby in the fog.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,748

If we could demonstrate the existence of God, everything would eventually be subjected to the sovereignty of man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,747

What turns the contraction of a few muscles into a smile is the light touch of invisible wings.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,746

The demands of honor increase with the rank of the obligations and soon seem extravagant to plebeian souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,745

To a man who errs out of good will are imputed both his good will and his error.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,744

Ethical rules vary; honor does not change.
A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his triumph.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,743

Of anything important there are no proofs, only testimonies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,742

The courteous man secretly seduces even the man who insults him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,741

We solve certain problems by proving they do not exist, and others we deny even exist so that we do not have to solve them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,740

Death is the unequivocal sign of our dependence.
Our dependence is the unequivocal foundation of our hope.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,739

Because we know that God cares about the individual, let us not forget that He seems to care little about humanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,738

The man who says he is respectful of all ideas is admitting that he is ready to give in.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,737

If words do not replace anything, only they complete everything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,736

Man does not know what he destroys until after he has destroyed it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,735

New ideas tend to be an ember stirred up by new gusts of the spirit.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,734

Traditional technology used to educate, because the mastery of it transmitted gestures integrated into a way of life; the teaching of rationalist technology merely instructs, by transmitting gestures alone.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,733

Rhetoric is everything exceeding what is strictly necessary to convince oneself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,732

The world is not a place where the soul goes on an adventure, but the adventure itself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,731

Tradition is a work of the spirit which, in turn, is a work of the tradition.
When a tradition perishes the spirit is extinguished, and the presentations it shaped into objects revert to their condition as instruments.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,730

Man’s different postures place him before different values.
There exists no privileged position from which to observe the conjunction of all values into one single value.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,729

The deepest spiritual experiences do not come from profound intellectual meditations, but rather from the privileged vision of something concrete.
In the lararium of the soul we do not venerate great gods, but fragments of phrases, the slice of a dream.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,728

The hand that has not learned how to caress does not know how to write.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,727

Only among friends are there no ranks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,726

The mortal sin of the critic lies in secretly dreaming that he could perfect the author.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,725

We reactionaries escape, necessarily by good fortune, the vulgarity of conforming perfectly to the fashions of the day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,724

The spirit is fallible submission to norms, not infallible subjection to laws.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,723

The spirit is not transmitted from one mortal to another by way of formulas.
More easily than through a concept, the spirit passes from one soul to another soul through a quivering of the voice.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,722

Recent generations move among the ruins of Western culture like a caravan of Japanese tourists among the ruins of Palmyra.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,721

“Raising awareness” is the modest version of indoctrination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,720

We lack more solid reasons to anticipate that there will be a tomorrow than to believe that there will be another life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,719

In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,718

Because his carefully calculated expectations failed, the fool believes that the madness of our hopes has been mocked.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,717

Courtesy is an obstacle to progress.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,716

Christianity does not solve “problems”; it merely obliges us to live them at a higher level.
Those who claim that it does solve them entangle it in the irony of every solution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,715

We more readily abandon a reality than its symbols.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,714

The Christian knows that he can claim nothing, but can hope for everything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,713

A civilized society is one where physical pain and pleasure are not the only arguments.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,712

Because he presumed that he was capable of giving fullness to the world, modern man sees it become emptier each day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,711

What is difficult is not to believe in God, but to believe that we matter to Him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,710

The theologian corrupts theology by wanting to turn it into a science.
By looking for rules for grace.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,709

God ends up being a parasite in souls where ethics predominates.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,708

The philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows.
He says nothing to someone who does not see.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,707

Christianity does not teach that the problem is solved, but that the prayer is answered.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,706

In order to act, an operational notion of the object is required; but a poetic notion is required in order to understand.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,705

Only the political failure of the right balances, in our time, the literary failure of the left.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,704

Freedom intoxicates, as the license to be another.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,703

Illusions plague the man who renounces hope.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,702

The “wheel of fortune” is a better analogy for history than the “evolution of humanity.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,701

Absolutism, whether intellectual or political, is the capital sin against the hierarchical method.
Usurpation, by one of the terms in the system, of the liberties of the others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,700

What the reactionary says never interests anybody.
Neither at the time he says it, because it seems absurd, nor after a few years, because it seems obvious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,699

“A classless society” is one where there is neither aristocracy nor people.
Where only the bourgeois moves around freely.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,698

He who “overcomes” himself merely displays his indigence in a more conspicuous place.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,697

Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,696

The leftist emulates the devout who continue venerating the relic after the miracle has been proved to be a hoax.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,695

The modern mind became paralyzed by believing that there are problems that have been solved.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,694

There exists no truth in the humanities that does not need to be rediscovered each week.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,693

Terrorism does not arise where oppressors and oppressed exist, but where those who say they are oppressed do not confront oppressors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,692

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.
It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,691

He who longs for “perfect communication” among individuals, their reciprocal “perfect transparency,” their mutual “perfect possession,” as a certain high priest of the left does, longs for the perfect totalitarian society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,690

A tenured professor only succeeds in embalming the ideas that are delivered to him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 282

#1,689

It is easier to make a man accept a new truth than to make him abandon the errors it refutes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,688

The Gospels, in the hands of the progressive clergy, degenerate into a compilation of trivial ethical teachings.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,687

The error lies not in dreaming that secret gardens exist, but in dreaming that they have doors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,686

By intending practical ends, we always end up linking arms with neighbors we would not have wanted to touch with a ten-foot pole.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,685

The grandiloquence of the messenger tends to be proportional to the insignificance of the message.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,684

“Finding himself,” for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The beauty of the figure of the Virgin comes at once from the sacred retinue of vanquished goddesses she evokes or replaces, and from the way in which she transcends them.

Notas, p. 432

#1,683

The left’s bourgeois mentality will successively reconstruct all bourgeois societies that the left successively destroys.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,682

History does not have laws that allow for predictions; but it does have contexts that allow for explanations, and tendencies that allow for presentiments.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,681

The sincere dialogue ends in a quarrel.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,680

The supposed enemies of the bourgeoisie are expert gardeners who prune its caducous branches.
Bourgeois society is not in danger as long as its enemies admire what it admires.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,679

In aristocratic times what has value is priceless; in democratic times what is priceless has no value.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,678

The looks of the participants in candid photographs of revolutionary scenes seem half cretinous, half demented.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,677

When associated with humility, even defects turn out to be unpublished virtues.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,676

Intelligence, in certain ages, must dedicate itself merely to restoring definitions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,675

Poetry must slip into this gloomy dusk like a partridge into the brush.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,674

The authentic aristocracy is a popular dream betrayed by historical aristocracies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,673

We must neither become petrified in our primitial tastes, nor sway in the breeze of others’ tastes.
The two commandments of taste.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,672

The babel of “explanations” falls silent when an individual totality raises its voice.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,671

Genuine thought only discovers its principles at the end.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,670

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective “natural” without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us.
From natural borders to natural religion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,669

Systematic familiarity is the hypocrisy of an egalitarian who considers himself inferior, or superior, but not equal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,668

A person who is not a little absurd turns out to be insufferable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,667

Reading is an unsurpassable drug, because more than just the mediocrity of our lives, it allows us to escape the mediocrity of our souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,666

The lie is the muse of revolutions: it inspires their programs, their proclamations, their panegyrics.
But it forgets to gag their witnesses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,665

The revolutionary does not discover the “authentic spirit of the revolution” except before the revolutionary tribunal that condemns him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,664

A ridiculous sense of shame will not allow the intelligent writer today to deal with anything but obscene topics.
But since he learned not to be ashamed of anything, he should not be ashamed of decent sentiments.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,663

The fewer adjectives we waste, the more difficult it is to lie.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,662

The principle of individuation in society is belief in the soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,661

“Reconciling man to himself”—the most accurate definition of stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 277

#1,660

The voice that seduces us is not the voice with which the writer is born, but the one which is born from the encounter of his talent with his language.
The mysterious person produced by his unmistakable use of language.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 277

#1,659

Those who live in the twilight of history imagine that the day is being born when night is approaching.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 277

#1,658

Revolutions bequeath to literature only the laments of their victims and the invectives of their enemies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 277

#1,657

The irrevocable edict ordering the demolition of the modern world only left us the ability to choose the demolisher.
Angel or demon.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 277

#1,656

Untouchable topics abound in democratic times. Race, illnesses, climate, end up being caustic substances there. Unspeakable there is anything that might imply that humanity is not causa sui.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 277

#1,655

What an age acclaims tends to be more incomprehensible than what it does not comprehend.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,654

Easy communications trivialize even what is urgent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,653

When a language is undergoing corruption, its speakers believe it is being brought up to date.
In the youthfulness of contemporary prose there are views of carcasses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,652

Problems are also distributed along class lines.
There are noble problems, plebeian problems, and innumerable middling problems.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,651

Being common and customary without being predictable is the secret of good prose.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,650

Let us try always to adhere to the losing party, so that we will not have to be ashamed of what the winning party always does.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,649

“Current events” designates the sum total of what is insignificant.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,648

New ideas occasion disturbances in history; new sensibilities change its course.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,647

The only thing that should disquiet us is what we do, even when the only thing that counts is what we are.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,646

The fool calls conclusions he does not understand “prejudices.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,645

Courtesy is the attitude of a man who does not need to presume.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,644

A personal group of authentic solutions has the coherence not of a system but of a symphony.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,643

“Complexes” which we do not reinforce by making them public, instead of poisoning us, often commit suicide.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,642

Socialism is the commercial name of state capitalism on the electoral market.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,641

The perfection of a work of art depends on the degree of obedience of its diverse elements to their proper hierarchy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,640

In the humanities the latest fashion is taken for the current state of the discipline.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,639

Without an alert imagination intelligence runs aground.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,638

The Marxist calls a “class truth” a truth that his class prevents him from understanding.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,637

For art’s current anemia let us blame the doctrine which advises each artist to prefer the invention of his own aesthetic idiom to the unmistakable use of a common aesthetic idiom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,636

In order to cure the patient it injured in the 19th century, industrial society had to numb his mind in the 20th century.
Spiritual misery is the price of industrial prosperity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,635

Between the desert pole and the city pole extends the equatorial zone of civilization.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,634

What the beauty of a poem signifies has no connection at all with what the poem signifies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,633

Fashion adopts those philosophies which cautiously avoid problems.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 273

#1,632

What is obvious to one age seems like an enigma to another age, and what is an enigma to one seems obvious to another.
In never-ending cycles.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 273

#1,631

How long an idea remains in effect does not depend on its validity; it depends on incidental circumstances.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 273

#1,630

Even the most discreet truth appears to modern man to be insufferable insolence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 273

#1,629

Nothing obliges the man who only meditates to debate every fool who argues.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 273

#1,628

I walk in the dark.
But I am guided by the smell of broom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 273

Announcement

All the aphorisms that have been translated up to this point have come from the first two volumes of Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1977).

Translations of selected aphorisms from Nuevos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1986) will begin appearing tomorrow.

#1,627

I do not belong to a world that is passing away.
I prolong and transmit a truth that does not die.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 269

#1,626

To write for posterity is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.
It is to aspire to a certain quality of writing.
Even when no one reads us.

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#1,625

The writer invites us to understand his language, not to translate it into the language of our equivalencies.

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#1,624

To understand a philosopher it is not necessary to make an inventory of his ideas, but to identify the angel against which he fights.

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#1,623

The reactionary is the guardian of every heritage.
Even the heritage of the revolutionary.

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#1,622

The reactionary is not upset by certain things, but by anything out of place.

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#1,621

Revolutions have as their function the destruction of the illusions that cause them.

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#1,620

I am like the people: luxury does not upset me except in unworthy hands.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 268

#1,619

Journalism was the cradle of literary criticism.
The university is its tomb.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 268

#1,618

Even when it is right, a revolution solves nothing.

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#1,617

The eagerness with which an explanation for everything is sought in the psychology of the unconscious is a reflection of modern anxiety in the presence of transcendence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 268

#1,616

The leftist who protests equally against the crimes of the right or the left is called by his comrades, and rightly so, a reactionary.

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#1,615

The only thing that makes modern man ashamed is to confess admiration for an author who is out of style.

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#1,614

Absolute revolution is the favorite topic of those who do not even dare to protest when they are trodden on.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 268

#1,613

Everything is voluminous in this century.
Nothing is monumental.

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#1,612

What the democrat calls “Man” is no more than the ghostly projection of his pride.

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#1,611

No one should dare, without trembling, to influence anyone’s destiny.

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#1,610

The “apostles of culture” eventually turn it into a business.

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#1,609

The reactionary does not condemn the bourgeois mentality, but rather its predominance.
What we reactionaries deplore is the absorption of the aristocracy and the people by the bourgeoisie.
It is the emasculation of liberty or, alternatively, of equality.

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#1,608

The true historian’s greatest delight is the spectacle of a thesis colliding with a fact and shattering into a thousand pieces.

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#1,607

“Social justice” is the term used to claim anything to which we do not have a right.

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#1,606

Enthusiasm, in leftist regimes, is a synthetic product manufactured by the police.

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#1,605

To insult an inferior is just slightly more vile than to flatter him.

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#1,604

What was true yesterday is not always error today, as fools believe.
But what is true today can be error tomorrow, as fools forget.

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#1,603

Nothing is more superficial than intelligences that comprehend everything.

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#1,602

Life demands that we reach conclusions, but not that we trust them.

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#1,601

The “solutions” that puff contemporaries up with pride seem within a few years inconceivably stupid.

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#1,600

An authentic reader is someone who reads for pleasure the books which everyone else only studies.

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