#2,633

It is not where mythological allusions disappear that the Greek imprint is wiped away; it is where the limits of the human are forgotten.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 425

#2,571

When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 413

#2,153

The disappearance of the peasantry and of the classical humanities ruptured the continuity with the past.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 351

#2,043

The circus factions were not political parties; today’s political parties are circus factions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 331

#2,005

Even for Buddhist compassion, the individual is only a shadow that vanishes.
The dignity of the individual is a Christian cast made out of Greek clay.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326

#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

#1,752

There is always a Thermopylae in which to die.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,289

Christianity, when it abolishes its ancient liturgical languages, degenerates into strange, uncouth sects.
Once contact is broken with Greek and Latin antiquity, once its medieval and patristic inheritance is lost, any simpleton turns into its exegete.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,226

Modern stupidities are more irritating than ancient stupidities because their proselytes seek to justify them in the name of reason.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,192

Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 209

#576

The ancients saw in the historical or mythical hero, in Alexander or in Achilles, the standard of human life. The great man was paradigmatic, his existence exemplary.
The patron saint of the democrat, on the other hand, is the vulgar man.
The democratic model must be strictly lacking in every admirable quality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 108