#2,982

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect.
The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing.
The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin.
From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 476

#2,977

The contemporary Church prefers to practice an electoral Catholicism.
It prefers the enthusiasm of great crowds to individual conversions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,939

Everything in the world ultimately rests on its own final “just because.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,937

An individual is defined less by his contradictions than by the way he comes to terms with them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,879

The victims of the most serious individual and social catastrophes are often not even aware: individuals become brutish, societies become degraded, unawares.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,685

In the social sciences, one should only generalize in order to individualize better.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,679

The modern machine becomes more complex every day, and every day modern man becomes more elemental.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,646

The two poles are the individual and God; the two antagonists are God and Man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 427

#2,440

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 393

#2,381

The only possible progress is the internal progress of each individual.
A process that concludes with the end of each life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 385

#2,278

The goal of individuality is the realization of itself. To reduce it to the mere realization of a man’s specific character is to fundamentally frustrate it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 370

#2,075

By overcoming the notion of cyclical history, Christianity did not discover the meaning of history; it merely emphasized the irreplaceable importance of the irreplaceable individual.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 336

#2,041

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 331

#2,005

Even for Buddhist compassion, the individual is only a shadow that vanishes.
The dignity of the individual is a Christian cast made out of Greek clay.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326

#1,978

The authentic individual cannot be added up; he can only be placed in order.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,922

The individual does not search for his identity except when he despairs of his quality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,739

Because we know that God cares about the individual, let us not forget that He seems to care little about humanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,684

“Finding himself,” for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 281

#1,662

The principle of individuation in society is belief in the soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 278

#1,567

We end up treating each other as fungible goods when we cease believing in the soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 261