Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for puttin...

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

Everything in the world ultimately rests on its own final “just because.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 469

An individual is defined less by his contradictions than by the way he comes to terms with them. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

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

In the social sciences, one should only generalize in order to individualize better. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 433

The modern machine becomes more complex every day, and every day modern man becomes more elemental. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...

The two poles are the individual and God; the two antagonists are God and Man. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 427

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

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

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

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

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 331

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

The authentic individual cannot be added up; he can only be placed in order. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 322

The individual does not search for his identity except when he despairs of his quality. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 314

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 Impl...

“Finding himself,” for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 281

The principle of individuation in society is belief in the soul. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 278

We end up treating each other as fungible goods when we cease believing in the soul. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 261