Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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

The so-called prejudices of the upper classes tend to consist of accumulated experiences. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 468

Approaching religion through art is not the caprice of an aesthete: aesthetic experience spontaneously tends to expand into a presentiment o...

If there existed a religious instinct, instead of religious experience, religion would lack importance. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selec...

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...

Whoever takes pride in “having lived through a lot” should keep quiet so as not to prove to us that he has understood nothing. Escolios a un...

From the slums of life one returns not wiser, but dirtier. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 316

The deepest spiritual experiences do not come from profound intellectual meditations, but rather from the privileged vision of something con...

Newspaper reports are the modern substitute for experience. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 246

Unless we inherit a spiritual tradition to interpret it, life experience teaches us nothing. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 2...

The experience of a man who “has lived a long life” can usually be reduced to a few trivial anecdotes with which he decorates an incurable s...

It is not only between generations where experience is lost, but also between periods of an individual life. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: ...

The virile age of thought is fixed not by experience, nor by years, but by the encounter with certain philosophies. Escolios a un Texto Impl...

We believe we confront our theories with the facts, but we can only confront them with theories of experience. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...