Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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Writing is the only way to distance oneself from the century in which it was one’s lot to be born. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ...

Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts about the divinity of C...

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity. Escolios a un Texto...

Envy tends to be the true force behind moral indignation. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 477

What is important is not that man believe in the existence of God; what is important is that God exist. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selec...

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography. Escolios a un Te...

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for puttin...

The voter does not even vote for what he wants; he only votes for what he thinks he wants. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 476

It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebel...

Nobody in politics can foresee the consequences either of what he destroys, or of what he constructs. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

The contemporary Church prefers to practice an electoral Catholicism. It prefers the enthusiasm of great crowds to individual conversions. E...

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sele...

The modern metropolis is not a city; it is a disease. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 475

Society until yesterday had notables; today it only has celebrities. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 475

In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 475

Fashion, even more than technology, is the cause of the modern world’s uniformity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 475

The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of sociali...

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence “Freedom,” but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences. Escolios ...

Ever since Wundt, one of the classic places of “disguised unemployment” is the experimental psychology laboratory. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

The so highly acclaimed “dominion of man over nature” turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...

No one is more insufferable than a man who does not suspect, once in a while, that he might not be right. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

Superficial, like the sociological explanation of any behavior. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 474

If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism. The rest is rhetoric. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: S...

A noble society is one where obeying and exercising authority are ethical behaviors, and not mere practical necessities. Escolios a un Texto...

That the abandonment of the “what for” in the sciences has been productive is indisputable, but it is an admission of defeat. Escolios a un ...

Unlimited gullibility is required to be able to believe that any social condition can be improved in any other way than slowly, gradually, a...

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience. Escolios a un Te...

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the indu...

One must beware of those who are said “to have much merit.” They always have some past to avenge. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ,...

A bureaucracy ultimately always ends up costing the people more than an upper class. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 472

Compared to the sophisticated structure of every historical fact, Marxism’s generalizations possess a touching naiveté. Escolios a un Texto ...

The modern clergy believe they can bring man closer to Christ by insisting on Christ’s humanity. Thus forgetting that we do not trust in Chr...

Those who insist on being up to date with today’s fashion are less irritating than those who try too hard when they do not feel that they ar...

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.” The world, in the last three hundred years, has not...

Historical events stop being interesting the more accustomed their participants become to judging everything in purely secular categories. W...

If we are ignorant of an epoch’s art, its history is a colorless narrative. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 471

The people that awakes, first shouts, then gets drunk, pillages, [and] murders, and later goes back to sleep. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

Why not imagine the possibility, after several centuries of Soviet hegemony, of the conversion of a new Constantine? Escolios a un Texto Imp...

Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 471

The problem of increasing inflation could be solved, if the modern mentality did not put up insurmountable resistance against any attempt to...

The reactionary’s ideal is not a paradisiacal society. It is a society similar to the society that existed in the peaceful intervals of the ...

In modern society, capitalism is the only barrier to the spontaneous totalitarianism of the industrial system. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...

It is not primitive cults that discredit religion, but American sects. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 470

“Nature” was a pre-Romantic discovery which Romanticism propagated, and which technology is killing in our days. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

There exist two interpretations of the popular vote, one democratic, the other liberal. According to the democratic interpretation what the ...

The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Except in a few countries, trying to “promote culture” while recommending the reading of “national authors” is a contradictory endeavor. Esc...