Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Fashion, even more than technology, is the cause of the modern world’s uniformity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 475

Those who insist on being up to date with today’s fashion are less irritating than those who try too hard when they do not feel that they ar...

One must appreciate commonplaces and despise fashionable places. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 411

Authentic French art and authentic French literature have always existed on the fringe of those “latest Parisian intellectual fashions” whic...

Ideas try to look younger with the years and only the most ancient achieve immortal youth. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 372

In order to be able to speak disdainfully of the great writer who has passed out of fashion, the intellectual refrains from reading him. Esc...

The fool does not renounce an error unless it goes out of fashion. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 340

The only man who saves himself from intellectual vulgarity is the man who ignores what it is fashionable to know. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

The most disastrous folly in letters is observance of the aesthetic rule of the day. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 317

To feign knowledge of a subject, it is advisable to adopt its most recent interpretation. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 309

We who are sedentary and indifferent to fashion enjoy nothing more than the panting gallop of straggling progressives. Escolios a un Texto I...

We reactionaries escape, necessarily by good fortune, the vulgarity of conforming perfectly to the fashions of the day. Escolios a un Texto ...

In the humanities the latest fashion is taken for the current state of the discipline. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 274

The “decisions of the human conscience” are the clandestine echo of fashion. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 265

The more fundamentally he shares the prejudices of his time, the easier it is for the historian to believe he possesses objective criteria b...