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 modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the indu...

Compared to the sophisticated structure of every historical fact, Marxism’s generalizations possess a touching naiveté. Escolios a un Texto ...

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.” The world, in the last three hundred years, has not...

Historical events stop being interesting the more accustomed their participants become to judging everything in purely secular categories. W...

If we are ignorant of an epoch’s art, its history is a colorless narrative. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 471

The people that awakes, first shouts, then gets drunk, pillages, [and] murders, and later goes back to sleep. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

Why not imagine the possibility, after several centuries of Soviet hegemony, of the conversion of a new Constantine? Escolios a un Texto Imp...

The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

None of the high points of history has been planned. The reformer can only be credited with errors. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...

Even when patriotic historians become angry, the history of many countries is completely lacking in interest. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man’s ability. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 458

The essential mechanism of history is the simple replacement of some individualities by others. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p...

The economic cause produces “something,” but only the historical juncture decides “what.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 456

The historian who speaks of cause, and not of causes, should be fired immediately. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 455

If determinism is real, if only that can happen which must happen, error does not exist. Error supposes that something happened that should ...

The nature of the effect, in history, depends on the nature of the individual on which the cause acts. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

The diversity of history is the effect of always equal causes acting on always diverse individualities. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selec...

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground s...

All that is most excellent in history is a result of singularly unstable equilibriums. Nothing endures for sure, but the mediocre lasts long...