#2,982

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect.
The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing.
The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin.
From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 476

#2,964

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,923

The Christian knows with certainty what his personal behavior should be, but he can never state for certain that he is not making a mistake by adopting this or that social reform.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,922

The fool, seeing that customs change, says that morality varies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#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

#2,619

Everything that is physically possible soon seems morally plausible to modern man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 423

#2,542

The civilizing effect of works of art is due less to the aesthetic value than to the ethic of aesthetic work.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 408

#2,526

Ethics and aesthetics, when divorced, each submit more readily to man’s whims.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,480

By merely looking at the face of the modern man one infers the mistake in attributing ethical importance to his sexual behavior.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 399

#2,426

It turns out it is impossible to convince a businessman that a profitable activity can be immoral.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,423

The sight of the modern world is so repugnant that ethical imperatives are becoming certainties in the indicative for us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,422

Few take note of the only diversion which does not become tiring: to try to be year after year a little less ignorant, a little less coarse, a little less vile.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 390

#2,407

Dialogue with the imbecile poses difficulties: we never know where we harm him, when we scandalize him, [or] how we please him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 388

#2,406

Ethical conduct is the aesthetically satisfactory conduct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 388

#2,308

Perhaps religious practices do not improve ethical behavior, but they do without question improve manners.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

#2,156

The stupidity of immoralism consists of seeing in the crime nothing but the murderer’s fearlessness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 351

#2,105

Since the 18th century discovered “sensibility,” the serious philosophical task has consisted in isolating in it specific capacities for perception which are confused with passive psychological states.
Ethical consciousness, aesthetic consciousness, religious consciousness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 341

#2,033

It has taken Christian philosophers work to take sin seriously, that is to say: to see that it transcends ethical phenomena.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 330

#1,877

The ugliness of the modern face is an ethical phenomenon.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,854

To refute the new morality, all one needs to do is examine the faces of its aged devotees.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304