September 14, 2010

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There are no ideas that expand the intelligence, but there are ideas that shrink it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

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  1. The original Spanish is:

    No hay ideas que ensanchen la inteligencia, pero hay ideas que la encogen.

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  2. This seems to me to be one of the aphorisms in which Gómez Dávila speaks of "intelligence" (inteligencia) as a specific faculty of the soul, and not just as a quality of individual men. That is why I have translated it here with the definite article as "the intelligence."

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