Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

That the abandonment of the “what for” in the sciences has been productive is indisputable, but it is an admission of defeat. Escolios a un ...

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demo...

“Meaning,” “significance,” “importance,” are terms which do not merely designate transitive relations. There are things with meaning, signif...

The existence of a work of art demonstrates that the world has meaning. Even when it does not say what that meaning is. Escolios a un Texto ...

Man pays for the powers he acquires over the world by giving up the meaning of things. To construct the theory of wind one must renounce the...

When we invent a universal meaning for the world, we deprive of meaning even those fragments that do have meaning. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

Never to think of the parts except by starting with the whole is a horrible guide for action, but the only one that saves us from living in ...

Radical sin relegates the sinner to a silent, gray universe, drifting on the surface of the water, a lifeless shipwreck, toward inexorable i...

Because he presumed that he was capable of giving fullness to the world, modern man sees it become emptier each day. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

Whoever merely resigns himself to his lot feels frustrated by a destiny without meaning. Whoever humbly accepts it knows that he just does ...

Sensuality is the permanent possibility of rescuing the world from the captivity of its insignificance. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selec...

A work of art has, properly speaking, not meaning but power. Its presumed meaning is the historical form of its power on the transitory spec...