#1,963

An extreme ambition protects us against vanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,962

It is not man’s greatness I insist on denying, but the supposed omnipotence of his hands.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,961

When a society’s intelligence becomes plebeian, literary criticism appears more lucid, albeit cruder.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,960

Error almost always walks more elegantly than the truth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,959

Literature is not a psychological drug, but a complex means of communication for saying complex things.
A melodramatic or cacophonous text, besides being ugly, is false.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,958

The books from which we would not like to part tend to be those which we refused to approach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,957

Sincerity soon becomes an excuse for saying stupid things.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,956

Clarity is the virtue of a man who does not distrust what he says.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,955

The palate is the only suitable laboratory for the analysis of texts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,954

A limited population produces fewer ordinary intelligences than a numerous population, but it can produce an equal or greater number of talents.
Great demographic densities are the breeding grounds of mediocrity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,953

We should distrust our taste but believe only in it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,952

The ritualism of daily conversations mercifully hides from us just how basic the furnishings of the minds among which we live are.
To avoid any shocks, let us prevent our interlocutors from “elevating the debate.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,951

Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,950

The specialist, when they examine his basic notions, bristles as if before a blasphemy and trembles as if in an earthquake.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,949

The people wants what they suggest it should want.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,948

Dreams of excellence do not deserve respect except when they do not disguise a vulgar appetite for superiority.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,947

The most disastrous folly in letters is observance of the aesthetic rule of the day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,946

All truth is born between an ox and an ass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,945

The necessary and sufficient condition of despotism is the disappearance of every kind of social authority not conferred by the State.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,944

The progressive dreams of the scientific stabling of humanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,943

We who say what we think, without precaution or reticence, cannot be taken advantage of even by those who think like we do.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,942

The contemporary public is the first to readily buy what it neither needs nor likes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,941

The four or five invulnerable philosophical propositions allow us to pull the rest’s leg.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,940

Living among opinions, one forgets the importance of a simple difference in accent between ideas.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,939

“Great men” are luminous specters that vanish in the divine light and in the plebeian night.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,938

Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,937

From the slums of life one returns not wiser, but dirtier.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,936

It does not appear that the humanities, in contrast to the natural sciences, reach a state of maturity where anything idiotic is automatically obvious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,935

Let us choose without hesitation, but without hiding the fact that the arguments we reject often balance those we accept.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,934

With the disappearance of the upper class, there is nowhere to take refuge from the smugness of the middle class and the rudeness of the lower class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,933

The Church avoided sclerosing into a sect by demanding that the Christian demand perfection of himself, not that he demand it of his neighbor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,932

Errors distract us from the contemplation of the truth by inducing us to scare them away by shouting at them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 315

#1,931

Democratic elections decide who may be oppressed legally.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 315

#1,930

The apologist of any cause falls easily into the temptation of exceeding his own conviction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 315

#1,929

Without religious routines souls unlearn subtle and polished sentiments.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 315

#1,928

A man who has recourse to a physiological interpretation is a man who is afraid of the soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 315

#1,927

Ideologies are fictitious nautical charts, but on them, in the end, depends against which reefs one is shipwrecked.
If interests move us, stupidities guide us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 315

#1,926

To be stupid is to believe that it is possible to take a photograph of the place about which a poet sang.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 315

#1,925

The absolutist wishes for a sovereign force that will subdue all others, the liberal a multitude of weak forces that will neutralize each other.
But the axiological commandment decrees hierarchies of multiple vigorous and active forces.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,924

I distrust the system deliberately constructed by thought; I trust in the one that results from the pattern of its footprints.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,923

Whoever denies the bourgeoisie its virtues has been infected with the worst of its vices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,922

The individual does not search for his identity except when he despairs of his quality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,921

Authentic history is the transfiguration of the raw event by intelligence and imagination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,920

Men tend not to live on anything but the ground floor of their souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,919

Let us be careful not to return from an encounter with the gods of the netherworld as madmen.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,918

Precision in philosophy is a false elegance.
On the other hand, literary precision is the foundation of aesthetic achievement.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,917

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,916

What we discover as we age is not the vanity of everything, but of almost everything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,915

It is not because there are ages that have been “surpassed” that no restoration is possible, but because everything is mortal.
The son does not succeed a father who has been surpassed, but a father who has died.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,914

Radical sin relegates the sinner to a silent, gray universe, drifting on the surface of the water, a lifeless shipwreck, toward inexorable insignificance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,913

Without the influence of what the fool calls rhetoric, history would have been nothing more than a sordid tumult.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,912

Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313

#1,911

Literary nationalism selects its themes with the eyes of a tourist.
It sees nothing of its land but the exotic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,910

All earthly splendor is the labor of astounded hands, because no splendor depends on the human will.
Because all splendor refutes the radical assertion of sin.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,909

Admiring only mediocre works, or reading only masterpieces, characterize the uncultivated reader.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,908

The only attribute that can without hesitation be denied man is divinity.
But that sacrilegious pretension, nevertheless, is the ferment of his history, of his destiny, of his essence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,907

Nothing makes more evident the reality of sin than the stench of souls that deny its existence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,906

The prophet is not God’s confidant, but a rag blown about by sacred squalls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,905

Olympus, for a modern mind, is just a peak among the clouds.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,904

The effectiveness of an intelligent action is so uncertain today that it is not worth the trouble to discipline our wildest fantasies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,903

With the categories admitted by the modern mind we do not succeed in understanding anything but trifles.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,902

When faced with the assaults of caprice, authenticity needs to lay hold of principles to save itself.
Principles are bridges over a life’s flash floods.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,901

In the end, what does modern man call “Progress”?
Whatever seems convenient to the fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,900

Let us distrust the man who is not capable, in certain circumstances, of flabby sentimentality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,899

It is better to see what we admire insulted rather than used.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,898

Let us not expect any success to result from anything but unforeseeable coincidences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,897

Revolution already seems to be less a tactic for executing a plan than a drug for fleeing from modern boredom during one’s spare time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,896

Liberal ideas are likeable.
Their consequences ruinous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,895

What daring is needed for today is not to contribute to defilement.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,894

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,893

To call obsolete what merely ceased to be intelligible is a vulgar error.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,892

To condemn oneself is no less pretentious than to absolve oneself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,891

No one now is ignorant of the fact that “transforming the world” means bureaucratizing man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,890

It is not only to the native reader to whom the foreign critic’s vision seems out of focus; it seems so to the foreign reader as well.
To appreciate pantomime or criticism, then, one need not be a critic or a mime.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,889

Pain, evil, sin, are certainties we can lean on without fear that they will break.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,888

To feign knowledge of a subject, it is advisable to adopt its most recent interpretation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,887

Every age ends in a masquerade.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,886

It is not because criticisms of Christianity appear valid that people stop believing; rather, it is because people stop believing that they appear valid.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,885

Literary skill consists in keeping a phrase at the right temperature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,884

Modern man inverts problems’ ranks.
When it comes to sex education, for example, everyone pontificates, but who worries about the education of the sentiments?

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 309

#1,883

To love one’s neighbor is without doubt a commandment, but the gospel is the love that awaits us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,882

We who are sedentary and indifferent to fashion enjoy nothing more than the panting gallop of straggling progressives.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,881

Reactionary thought breaks into history as concrete liberty’s shout of warning, as the spasm of anguish in the face of the unlimited despotism arrived at by the man intoxicated with abstract liberty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,880

To induce us to adopt them, stupid ideas adduce the immense public that shares them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,879

His serious university training shields the technician against any idea.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,878

The economic interpretation of history is faulty, as long as economics limits itself to being the infrastructure of human existence.
It turns out to be relevant, however, when economics, by turning itself into the doctrinaire program for the transformation of the world, becomes a superstructure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,877

The ugliness of the modern face is an ethical phenomenon.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,876

Error does not seed well except in the shadow of the truth.
Even the devil becomes bored and excuses himself from where Christianity is being extinguished.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,875

When we say that words transfigure, the fool mistakenly thinks that they adulterate.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,874

To attribute an axial position in history to the West would be extravagant, if the rest of the world copied only its technology, if any form which is invented today, in whatever area, did not always appear to be invented by a Westerner without talent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,873

There is no contemptible occupation, as long as it is not credited with any importance it does not have.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,872

It is not in the world’s steppes where man dies of the cold; it is in the palace of concepts erected by the intellect.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,871

Only in what he manages to express nobly does man grasp profound truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,870

Let us try to turn the burden that weighs us down into a force that lifts us up to salvation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,869

For a cultural continuity to be broken, the destruction of certain institutions is enough, but when the soul softens, the survival of those very same institutions is not enough to prevent it from being broken.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,868

To judge correctly, one must lack principles.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,867

The word was not granted to us to express our misery, but to transfigure it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,866

Rather than against the masses that insult them, we must defend our truths against the defenders that bring them down to the masses’ level.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 306

#1,865

Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world.
Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,864

The psychological mechanism of the individual “without prejudices” lacks interest.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,863

Time distills the truth in the still of art.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,862

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,861

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of “progress,” when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,860

I have only one theme: pride.
Every stain is a vestige of it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,859

Because he heard it said that religious propositions are metaphors, the fool thinks they are fictions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,858

Those who deny the existence of ranks do not imagine with what clarity the rest see theirs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,857

The increasing integration of humanity merely makes it easier to share the same vices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,856

The reactionary not only has the nose to sniff out the absurd, he also has the palate to savor it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,855

Capitalism is the vulgar side of the modern soul, socialism its tedious side.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,854

To refute the new morality, all one needs to do is examine the faces of its aged devotees.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,853

Aesthetic pleasure is the supreme criterion for well-born souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,852

The modern world is condemned precisely by all that with which modern man seeks to justify it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,851

Men do not proclaim themselves equals because they believe they are sons of God, but when they believe they partake of divinity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,850

Pedantry is the weapon with which the professional protects the interests of his guild.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,849

The object is not constituted by the sum of its possible representations, but by the sum of its aesthetically satisfactory representations.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,848

What the leftist historian considers central to an age has never been the subject of works that have been admired by posterity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,847

In every age there are two types of readers: the curious reader in search of novelties and the aficionado of literature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,846

So-called frustrated lives tend to be merely overweening, frustrated ambitions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,845

Unless it runs up against successive barriers of incomprehension, a work of art does not impress its meaning [on anyone].

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,844

Lucidity is the booty of the defeated.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

#1,843

Whoever who does not agitate without rest in order to satisfy his greed always feels a little guilty in modern society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,842

The left’s theses are trains of thought that are carefully stopped before they reach the argument that demolishes them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,841

What save us from problems that defile us are problems that distress us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,840

The history of Christianity would be suspiciously human, if it were not the adventure of an incarnate god.
Christianity assumes the misery of history, as Christ assumes the misery of man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,839

During its journey, humanity gets sores on its feet from everything except its old shoes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,838

Innumerable problems arise from the method by which we seek to solve them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,837

History is less the evolution of humanity than the unfolding of facets of human nature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 302

#1,836

It is not to resolve contradictions, but to order them, to which we can aspire.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,835

Models in the social sciences are surreptitiously transformed, with consummate ease, from analytic tools into the results of analysis.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,834

Economists err without fail because they imagine that extrapolation allows for prediction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,833

Nothing cures the progressive.
Not even the frequent panic attacks administered to him by progress.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,832

The speed with which modern society absorbs its enemies could not be explained if their apparently hostile clamor were not simply an impatient demand for promotions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,831

The growing number of people who consider the modern world “unacceptable” would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,830

The embourgeoisement of the proletariat originated in its conversion to the industrial gospel preached by socialism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,829

We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,828

Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact.
The liberal always discovers too late that the price of equality is the omnipotent state.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,827

The revolutionary’s picturesque outfit changes colors imperceptibly until it matches the severe uniform of a police officer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,826

It is not so much the plebeian merriment that revolutions unleash which frightens the reactionary as the zealously bourgeois order that they produce.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,825

A language's attrition is faster, and the civilization that rests on it more fragile, when grammatical pedantry is forgotten.
Civilizations are periods of standard grammar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,824

The total truth will not be the indigestion of a dialectical process that swallows all the partial truths, but the limpid structure in which they are ordered.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,823

Explanation implies, comprehension unfolds.
Explanation impoverishes, by identifying terms; comprehension enriches, by diversifying them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,822

Among the inventions of human pride, one will finally slip in which will destroy them all.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,821

Modern man deafens himself with music in order not to hear himself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,820

The pleasant book does not attract the fool unless a pedantic interpretation vouches for it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,819

The artist does not compete with his fellow artists; he does battle with his angel.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,818

The name by which we are known is merely the best known of our pseudonyms.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,817

Consent does not establish authority; it acknowledges it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 299

#1,816

In the ocean of faith one fishes with a net of doubts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,815

Faith is not assent to concepts, but a sudden splendor that knocks us down.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,814

The periodic reflowering of what he decrees obsolete makes life bitter for the progressive.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,813

Every Christian has been directly responsible for the hardening of some unbeliever’s heart.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,812

The state will deserve respect again, when it again restricts itself to being simply the political profile of a constituted society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,811

Cultures dry out when their religious ingredients evaporate.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,810

A modern man is a man who forgets what man knows about man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,809

The fool exclaims that we are denying the problem when we show the falsity of his favorite solution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,808

The results do not change, even when everything changes, if the sensibility does not change.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 297

#1,807

What is most disquieting about the attitude of the contemporary clergy is that their good intentions often appear to be unimpeachable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 297

#1,806

The quality of an intelligence depends less on what it understands than on what makes it smile.

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#1,805

“Être absolumente moderne” is the characteristic desire of the petit bourgeois.

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#1,804

Only skepticism impedes the unceasing enthronement of idols.

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#1,803

By suppressing certain liturgies we suppress particular certainties.
To fell sacred groves is to erase divine footprints.

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#1,802

The soul is a quantity which decreases as more individuals come together.

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#1,801

Taste does not dishonor itself by virtue of what it likes or detests, but rather by virtue of what it erroneously equates.

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#1,800

Words are not enough for a civilization to be transmitted.
When its architectural landscape crumbles, a civilization’s soul deserts.

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#1,799

Skepticism does not mutilate faith; it prunes it.

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#1,798

The specialist, in the social sciences, strives above all to quantify the obvious.

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#1,797

I believe more in God’s smile than in His wrath.

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#1,796

Each person places his incredulity in a different place.
Mine gathers where nobody doubts.

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#1,795

A youth’s revolutionary activity is the rite of passage between adolescence and the bourgeoisie.

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#1,794

A decent man is one who makes demands upon himself that the circumstances do not make upon him.

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#1,793

The book that “today's youth” adopts needs to do decades of penance to atone for the silly ideas it inspires.

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#1,792

To proclaim Christianity the “cradle of the modern world” is a grave accusation or a grave calumny.

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#1,791

The determinist swears that there was no gunpowder, when the gunpowder does not explode; he never suspects that somebody put out the fuse.

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#1,790

Style is the order to which man subjects chaos.

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#1,789

The misfortune these days of innumerable decent souls lies in having to disdain, without knowing in the name of what to do so.

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#1,788

The intellectual irritates the civilized man, just as the adolescent irritates the adult, not because of the audacity of his bright ideas but because of the triviality of his arrogance.

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#1,787

In history it is wise to hope for miracles and absurd to trust in plans.

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#1,786

The public is not convinced except by the conclusions of syllogisms of whose premises they are ignorant.

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#1,785

The practical man wrinkles a perplexed brow when he hears intelligent ideas, trying to figure out whether he is hearing nonsense or insolence.

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#1,784

The twilight of certain lives is possessed not of the pathos of a sunset but of the fullness of midday.

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