February 28, 2011

#2,868

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

February 27, 2011

#2,862

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man’s ability.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458

#2,861

The classical humanities educate because they ignore the basic postulates of the modern mind.

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

#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

#2,858

Many are the things about which one must learn to smile without disrespect.

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

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

#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

#2,854

The police force is the only social structure in the classless society.

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

#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

#2,851

Political regimes become tolerable when they begin to hold their own principles in contempt.

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

#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

#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

#2,847

For the fool, obsolete opinion and erroneous opinion are synonymous expressions.

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

#2,845

The economic cause produces “something,” but only the historical juncture decides “what.”

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

#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

#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

#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

#2,840

Modern society works feverishly to put vulgarity within everyone’s reach.

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

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

#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

#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

#2,835

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith.

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

#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

February 22, 2011

#2,832

More so than the immorality of the contemporary world, it is its growing ugliness that moves one to dream of a cloister.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#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

#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

#2,829

By denouncing corruption, press publicity spreads it.

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

#2,827

Faith is not an explanation, but rather confidence that the explication ultimately exists.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

February 21, 2011

#2,826

What is difficult about every moral or social problem is based on the fact that its appropriate solution is not a question of all or nothing, but of more or less.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#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

#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

#2,823

“Social utility” is a criterion that slightly degrades what it seeks to justify.

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

#2,821

Tolerating even stupid ideas can be a social virtue; but it is a virtue that sooner or later receives its punishment.

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

#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

#2,818

Faith is not a conviction we possess, but a conviction that possesses us.

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

#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

#2,815

The line between intelligence and stupidity is a shifting line.

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

#2,813

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.

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

#2,811

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#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

#2,809

The embourgeoisement of Communist societies is, ironically, modern man’s last hope.

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

#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

#2,806

Our spontaneous aversions are often more lucid than our reasoned convictions.

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

#2,804

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.

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

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#2,791

Formulating the problems of today in a traditional vocabulary strips away their false pretenses.

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

#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

#2,788

It is above all against what the crowd proclaims to be “natural” that the noble soul rebels.

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

#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

#2,785

The lower truths tend to eclipse the highest truths.

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

#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

#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

#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

#2,780

Only religion can be popular without being vulgar.

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

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

#2,777

Cultural rhetoric today replaces patriotic rhetoric, in the effusive expectorations of fools.

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

#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

#2,774

The spectacle of humanity does not acquire a certain dignity except thanks to the distortion it undergoes in history due to time.

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

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

#2,771

Only he who suggests more than what he expresses can be reread.

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

#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

#2,768

Man never calculates the price of any comfort he gains.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,767

Determining what is the cause and what is the effect tends to be an insoluble problem in history.

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

#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

#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

#2,763

In history, understanding the individual and understanding the general condition each other reciprocally.

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

#2,761

One can only speak of the sovereignty of the law where the legislator’s function is reduced to consulting the consensus of custom in the light of ethics.

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#2,755

Not all defeated men are decent, but all decent men end up being defeated.

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

#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

#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

#2,751

Sensibility is a compass less susceptible of going crazy or misleading than is “reason.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,750

Falsifying the past is how the left has sought to elaborate the future.

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

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

#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

#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

#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

#2,744

The reactionary’s objection is not discussed; it is disdained.

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

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

#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

#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

#2,739

People without imagination chill our soul.

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

#2,737

Our life is an anecdote that hides our true personality.

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

#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

#2,734

Nothing is more disquieting to an intelligent unbeliever more than an intelligent Catholic.

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

#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

#2,731

Knowing solves only subordinate problems, but learning protects against tedium.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

February 5, 2011

#2,730

The vice which afflicts the right is cynicism, and that which afflicts the left is deceit.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,729

Man does not have the same density in every age.

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

#2,727

To know an historical episode well consists in not observing it through democratic prejudices.

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

#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

February 4, 2011

#2,724

Where equality allows freedom to enter, inequality slips in.

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

#2,722

The philosopher’s intuitions sometimes dazzle us; his ratiocinations make us bristle with objections.

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

#2,720

Individualism is the cradle of vulgarity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,719

The authentic vocation becomes indifferent to its failure or to its success.

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

#2,717

Philosophies begin in philosophy and end in rhetoric.

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

#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

#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

#2,713

A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

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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

#2,711

No writer has ever been born who did not write too much.

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

#2,709

“Sexual liberation” allows modern man to pretend to be ignorant of the multiple taboos of another kind that govern him.

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

#2,707

To do what we ought to do is the content of the Tradition.

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

#2,705

Words are the true adventures of the authentic writer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,704

Souls that Christianity does not prune never mature.

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

#2,702

We are saved from daily tedium only by the impalpable, the invisible, the ineffable.

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