Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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

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

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 ...

The fool, seeing that customs change, says that morality varies. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 467

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...

Everything that is physically possible soon seems morally plausible to modern man. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 423

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:...

Ethics and aesthetics, when divorced, each submit more readily to man’s whims. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 406

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

It turns out it is impossible to convince a businessman that a profitable activity can be immoral. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ...

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

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,...

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

Ethical conduct is the aesthetically satisfactory conduct. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 388

Perhaps religious practices do not improve ethical behavior, but they do without question improve manners. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Se...

The stupidity of immoralism consists of seeing in the crime nothing but the murderer’s fearlessness. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...

Since the 18th century discovered “sensibility,” the serious philosophical task has consisted in isolating in it specific capacities for per...

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

The ugliness of the modern face is an ethical phenomenon. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 307

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