#2,986

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 Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,685

In the social sciences, one should only generalize in order to individualize better.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,654

It is not the vague notion of “service” that deserves respect, but the concrete notion of “servant.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

#2,614

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 422

#2,192

Concepts do not seem precise except to a man who has a merely external experience of the facts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#2,147

The intelligent generalization should bear the decipherable imprint of the particular fact that gives rise to it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 350

#2,038

Let us limit our assertions about man to specifications about strata of individuals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 331

#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

#1,872

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

#1,371

Man believes he is lost among facts, when he is only caught in the web of his own definitions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,333

Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities.
When confrontedy by the bull’s horns of a concrete case, they all look like Anglo-Saxon bullfighters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#916

Generalizing extends our power and impoverishes our spirit.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 166

#343

What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 73