Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence “Freedom,” but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences. Escolios ...

The people today does not feel free except when it feels authorized to respect nothing. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464

The results of modern “liberation” make us remember with nostalgia the abolished “bourgeois hypocrisies.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

Modern man believes he lives amidst a pluralism of opinions, when what prevails today is a stifling unanimity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...

Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Nobody is ignorant of the fact that historical events are made up of four factors: necessity, coincidence, spontaneity, freedom. Nevertheles...

Where equality allows freedom to enter, inequality slips in. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 438

“Sexual liberation” allows modern man to pretend to be ignorant of the multiple taboos of another kind that govern him. Escolios a un Texto ...

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 429

The aesthetic impossibilities of an age stem not from social factors, but from internal censors. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

In ages of complete freedom, indifference to the truth grows so much that nobody makes the effort to confirm a truth or to refute it. Escoli...

Upon finding himself perfectly free, the individual discovers that he has not been relieved of everything, but despoiled. Escolios a un Text...

The increase in freedom on the one hand, and the increase in regulation on the other, work together perfectly to demoralize society. Escolio...

Civilization is the sum total of internal and external repressions imposed on the amorphous expansion of an individual or a society. Escolio...

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves. Escolios a un...

Freedom is the term used most without knowing what it means. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 361

Where everyone believes he has a right to rule, everyone eventually prefers that one man alone rule. The tyrant frees each individual from t...

Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact. The liberal always discovers too late th...

Freedom intoxicates, as the license to be another. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 284

Several civilizations were plundered because freedom inadvertently opened the gate to the enemy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...