The glory of the truly great writers is a glory artificially imposed on the public, an academic and subsidized glory.
Authentic, popular, spontaneous glory crowns none but mediocre men.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459
February 28, 2011
#2,867
When it comes to knowledge of man, there is no Christian (provided he is not a progressive Christian) whom anybody has anything to teach.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459
#2,866
Modern man believes he lives amidst a pluralism of opinions, when what prevails today is a stifling unanimity.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459
#2,865
The immigration of the peasant into the cities was less disastrous than that of the notable from the people.
Rural society, on the one hand, lost the structure of prestige that used to discipline it, and the notable, on the other, was transformed into an anonymous particle of the amorphous human mass.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459
Rural society, on the one hand, lost the structure of prestige that used to discipline it, and the notable, on the other, was transformed into an anonymous particle of the amorphous human mass.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459
#2,864
Even when patriotic historians become angry, the history of many countries is completely lacking in interest.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
#2,863
Man tries so hard to demonstrate in order to avoid the risk that he ultimately cannot avoid assuming.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
February 27, 2011
#2,861
The classical humanities educate because they ignore the basic postulates of the modern mind.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
#2,860
Someone who did not learn Latin and Greek goes through life convinced, even though he may deny it, that he is only semi-cultured.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
#2,859
So that one does not live depressed among so many foolish opinions, it behooves one to remember at every moment that things obviously are what they are, no matter what the world’s opinion is.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458
#2,858
Many are the things about which one must learn to smile without disrespect.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
#2,857
Everything that can be reduced to a system ends up in the hands of fools.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
February 26, 2011
#2,856
The limits of science are revealed with greater clarity by the waxing light of its triumphs.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
#2,855
The majority of new customs are old behaviors that western civilization had shamefacedly confined to its lower-class neighborhoods.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
#2,853
The majority of the tasks that this century’s typical ruler believes he is obliged to assume are nothing more than abuses of power.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
#2,852
God does not die, but unfortunately for man the subordinate gods like modesty, honor, dignity, decency, have perished.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457
#2,851
Political regimes become tolerable when they begin to hold their own principles in contempt.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
February 25, 2011
#2,850
The nature of the work of art can depend on social conditions, but its aesthetic quality depends on nothing.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
#2,849
In modern art there were numerous trends that exhausted the aesthetic consciousness’s capacity for indignation.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
#2,848
Nothing is more common than to despise many persons who should actually arouse our envy.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
#2,846
The essential mechanism of history is the simple replacement of some individualities by others.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
#2,845
The economic cause produces “something,” but only the historical juncture decides “what.”
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456
February 24, 2011
#2,844
The historian who speaks of cause, and not of causes, should be fired immediately.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
#2,843
The Church’s function is not to adapt Christianity to the world, nor even to adapt the world to Christianity; her function is to maintain a counterworld in the world.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
#2,842
The ignoramus believes that the expression “aristocratic manners” signified insolent behavior; whoever investigates discovers that the expression signified courtesy, refinement, dignity.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
#2,841
“Meaning,” “significance,” “importance,” are terms which do not merely designate transitive relations.
There are things with meaning, significance, importance, in themselves.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
There are things with meaning, significance, importance, in themselves.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
#2,839
What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455
February 23, 2011
#2,838
In the modern world the number of theories is increasing that are not worth the trouble to refute except with a shrug of the shoulders.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
#2,837
Liberty’s remaining partisans in our time tend to forget that a certain old and trivial bourgeois thesis is the proof itself: the condition sine qua non of liberty, for the proletariat as well as for the owners, is the existence of private property.
Direct defense of liberty for the ones; indirect defense of liberty for the others.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
Direct defense of liberty for the ones; indirect defense of liberty for the others.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
#2,836
Human warmth in a society diminishes by the same measure that its legislation is perfected.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
#2,834
In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has been thrust into us up to the hilt.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
#2,833
Something is modern if it is the product of an initial act of pride; something is modern if it seems to allow us to escape the human condition.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454
February 22, 2011
#2,831
If determinism is real, if only that can happen which must happen, error does not exist.
Error supposes that something happened that should not have.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
Error supposes that something happened that should not have.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
#2,830
We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
#2,829
By denouncing corruption, press publicity spreads it.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
#2,828
We are fully convinced only by the idea that does not need arguments to convince us.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
#2,827
Faith is not an explanation, but rather confidence that the explication ultimately exists.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453
February 21, 2011
#2,825
It is from a mistaken accentuation that the majority of the errors in our interpretation of the world proceed.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
#2,824
The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
#2,823
“Social utility” is a criterion that slightly degrades what it seeks to justify.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
#2,822
The onslaught of words unleashed by an unlimited freedom of expression ends up reducing errors and truths to an equal insignificance.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
February 20, 2011
#2,820
Unlimited tolerance is nothing more than a hypocritical way of resigning.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
#2,819
Once the intoxication of youth is over, only commonplaces appear to us to deserve careful examination.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
#2,818
Faith is not a conviction we possess, but a conviction that possesses us.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
#2,817
The nature of the effect, in history, depends on the nature of the individual on which the cause acts.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
#2,816
The diversity of history is the effect of always equal causes acting on always diverse individualities.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
#2,815
The line between intelligence and stupidity is a shifting line.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
February 19, 2011
#2,814
The pleasure of guessing the ingenious meaning of a metaphor tries to replace, in modern “poetry,” the mysterious joy of song.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
#2,812
Political activity ceases to tempt the intelligent writer, when he finally understands that there is no intelligent text that will succeed in ousting even a small-town mayor.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451
#2,810
A civilized society requires that in it, as in the old Christian society, equality and inequality be in permanent dialogue.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
#2,809
The embourgeoisement of Communist societies is, ironically, modern man’s last hope.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
February 18, 2011
#2,808
Even though they are full of threats, I fail to see anything in the Gospels but promises.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
#2,807
A “revolutionary” today means an individual for whom modern vulgarity is not triumphing quickly enough.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
#2,806
Our spontaneous aversions are often more lucid than our reasoned convictions.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
#2,805
A healthily constituted state is one where innumerable obstacles restrict and impede the freedom of the legislator.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450
#2,804
Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
#2,803
To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
February 17, 2011
#2,802
There are two equally erroneous attitudes toward Marxism: disdaining what it teaches, believing what it promises.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
#2,801
After experiencing what an age practically without religion consists of, Christianity is learning to write the history of paganism with respect and sympathy.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
#2,800
I am not so dumb as to deny the indisputable successes of modern art; but when I look at modern art in itself, just as when I look at Egyptian or Chinese art, I feel like I am looking at exotic art.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
#2,799
I would not live for even a fraction of second if I stopped feeling the protection of God’s existence.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
#2,798
The most persuasive reason to renounce daring progressive opinions is the inevitability with which sooner or later the fool finally adopts them.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449
#2,797
They speak emphatically of “transforming the world,” when the most to which they can aspire is to certain secondary remodelings of society.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
February 16, 2011
#2,796
The social sciences are not, properly speaking, inexact sciences, but sciences of the inexact.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
#2,795
The ultimate reality is not that of the object constructed by reason, but that of the voice answered by sensibility.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
#2,794
My convictions are the same as those of an old woman praying in the corner of a church.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
#2,793
Liberty is not the fruit of order alone; it is the fruit of mutual concessions between order and disorder.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
#2,792
In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
#2,791
Formulating the problems of today in a traditional vocabulary strips away their false pretenses.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448
February 15, 2011
#2,790
The only pellucid dialogue is one between two recluses.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
#2,789
All that is most excellent in history is a result of singularly unstable equilibriums.
Nothing endures for sure, but the mediocre lasts longer.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
Nothing endures for sure, but the mediocre lasts longer.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
#2,787
Doubts do not fade one by one: they disappear in a flash of light.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
#2,786
Even if he were to succeed in making his most audacious utopias a reality, man would continue to yearn for otherworldly destinies.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
#2,785
The lower truths tend to eclipse the highest truths.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
February 14, 2011
#2,784
The state has not behaved with discretion and restraint except when it has been watched by rich bourgeoisies.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447
#2,783
It is upon the antinomies of reason, upon the scandals of the spirit, upon the ruptures in the universe, that I base my hope and my faith.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
#2,782
To substitute a democratic government for another, non-democratic government comes down to substituting the beneficiaries of the pillaging.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
#2,781
Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity.
But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
#2,779
Man no longer knows how to invent anything that does not serve to kill better or to make the world a little more vulgar.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
February 13, 2011
#2,778
An intelligent touch can make the austerity imposed by poverty culminate in the perfection of taste.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
#2,777
Cultural rhetoric today replaces patriotic rhetoric, in the effusive expectorations of fools.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446
#2,776
Rather than from the disturbing spectacle of injustice triumphing, it is from the contrast between the earthly fragility of the beautiful and its immortal essence that the hope of another life is born.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
#2,775
The politician never says what he believes to be true, but rather what he considers to be effective.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
#2,773
“Historical necessity” is usually just a name for human stupidity.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
February 12, 2011
#2,772
Nobody is ignorant of the fact that historical events are made up of four factors: necessity, coincidence, spontaneity, freedom.
Nevertheless, it is rare to find a historiographical school that does not seek to reduce them to a single factor.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
Nevertheless, it is rare to find a historiographical school that does not seek to reduce them to a single factor.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
#2,771
Only he who suggests more than what he expresses can be reread.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445
#2,770
The notion of determinism has exercised a corrupting and terrorizing influence on the task of philosophy.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
#2,769
There is no coincidence in history that does not submit to the coincidence of the circumstances.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
#2,768
Man never calculates the price of any comfort he gains.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
February 11, 2011
#2,766
Intellectual boorishness is the defect that we least know how to avoid in this century.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
#2,765
Man does not become educated through the knowledge of things but through the knowledge of man.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
#2,764
There is no social science so exact that the historian does not need to correct and adapt it to be able to use it.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
#2,763
In history, understanding the individual and understanding the general condition each other reciprocally.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444
#2,762
Grand theories of history become useful when they give up trying to explain everything.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
February 10, 2011
#2,760
A man does not become stultified by his prejudices unless he believes they are conclusions.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
#2,759
Neither a declaration of human rights, nor the proclamation of a constitution, nor an appeal to natural law, protects against the arbitrary power of the state.
The only barrier to despotism is customary law.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
The only barrier to despotism is customary law.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
#2,758
Inequality and equality are theses that should be defended alternatively, in opposition to the dominant social climate.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
#2,757
Everything in history begins before where we think it begins, and ends after where we think it ends.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443
#2,756
Even the most austere rulers end up attending the circus in order to please the crowd.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
#2,755
Not all defeated men are decent, but all decent men end up being defeated.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
February 9, 2011
#2,754
The modern desire to be original makes the mediocre artist believe that simply being different is the secret to being original.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
#2,753
Man is important only if it is true that a God has died for him.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
#2,752
The day is made up of its moments of silence.
The rest is lost time.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
The rest is lost time.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
#2,751
Sensibility is a compass less susceptible of going crazy or misleading than is “reason.”
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442
#2,749
Those who defend revolutions cite speeches; those who accuse them cite facts.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
February 8, 2011
#2,748
Between the causes of a revolution and its realization in actions ideologies insert themselves which end up determining the course and even the nature of events.
“Ideas” do not “cause” revolutions, but channel them.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
“Ideas” do not “cause” revolutions, but channel them.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
#2,747
When a revolution breaks out, the appetites are placed at the service of ideals; when the revolution triumphs, ideals are placed at the service of the appetites.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
#2,746
When those elected in a popular election do not belong to the lowest intellectual, moral, social strata of the nation, we can be sure that clandestine anti-democratic mechanisms have interfered with the normal outcome of the vote.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
#2,745
In religious matters the triviality of the objections tends to be more obvious than the fragility of the proofs.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
#2,744
The reactionary’s objection is not discussed; it is disdained.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441
#2,743
Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
February 7, 2011
#2,742
When he repudiates rites, man reduces himself to an animal that copulates and eats.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
#2,741
Certain ideas are only clear when formulated, but others are only clear when alluded to.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
#2,740
The spectacle of a failure is perhaps less melancholy than the spectacle of a triumph.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
#2,738
To speak about God is presumptuous; not to speak of God is idiotic.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
#2,737
Our life is an anecdote that hides our true personality.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
February 6, 2011
#2,736
The perfect transparency of a text is, with nothing more, a sufficient delight.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440
#2,735
The realism of photography is false: it omits in its representation of the object its past, its transcendence, its future.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
#2,734
Nothing is more disquieting to an intelligent unbeliever more than an intelligent Catholic.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
#2,733
Humanity is what is elaborated in man’s animality by reserve and modesty.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
#2,732
Those who replace the “letter” of Christianity with its “spirit” generally turn it into a load of socio-economic nonsense.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
#2,731
Knowing solves only subordinate problems, but learning protects against tedium.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
February 5, 2011
#2,729
Man does not have the same density in every age.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439
#2,728
Among those elected by popular suffrage only the imbeciles are respectable, because the intelligent man had to lie in order to be elected.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
#2,726
Where Communism triumphs, silence falls with the sound of a trap closing shut.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
#2,725
The sociologist never knows, when manipulating his statistics, where the relative figure matters and where the absolute figure matters.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
February 4, 2011
#2,724
Where equality allows freedom to enter, inequality slips in.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
#2,723
Stupidity appropriates what science invents with diabolical facility.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
#2,722
The philosopher’s intuitions sometimes dazzle us; his ratiocinations make us bristle with objections.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
#2,721
The most ironic thing about history is that foreseeing is so difficult and having foreseen so obvious.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438
#2,719
The authentic vocation becomes indifferent to its failure or to its success.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
February 3, 2011
#2,718
Since philosophy is a dialogue, there is no reason to suppose that the last one to give his opinion is the one who is right.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
#2,717
Philosophies begin in philosophy and end in rhetoric.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
#2,716
Every man lives his life like a pent-up animal.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
#2,715
The commonplaces of the Western tradition are the guidelines that do not deceive in the social sciences.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
#2,714
Man is an animal that can be educated, provided he does not fall into the hands of progressive pedagogues.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
#2,713
A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437
February 2, 2011
#2,712
The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
#2,711
No writer has ever been born who did not write too much.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
#2,710
Whoever insists on refuting idiotic arguments ends up doing so with stupid reasons.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
#2,708
He who does not search for God at the bottom of his soul finds there nothing but muck.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
#2,707
To do what we ought to do is the content of the Tradition.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
February 1, 2011
#2,706
We can only hope for a reform of society to come from the contradictions between human follies.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436
#2,704
Souls that Christianity does not prune never mature.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
#2,703
The philosopher becomes unbalanced easily; only the moralist tends not to lose his reason.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
#2,702
We are saved from daily tedium only by the impalpable, the invisible, the ineffable.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
#2,701
One usually does not reach conclusions except by ignoring objections.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435
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