Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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

It is not primitive cults that discredit religion, but American sects. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 470

Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influen...

The Christian does not pretend that the problems posed by religion have been solved; instead, he transcends them. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 454

My convictions are the same as those of an old woman praying in the corner of a church. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 448

Only religion can be popular without being vulgar. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 446

In religious matters the triviality of the objections tends to be more obvious than the fragility of the proofs. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

Economic claims, hostility between social classes, religious differences, tend to be mere pretexts for an instinctive appetite for conflict....

The temptation for the churchman is to carry the waters of religion in the sieve of theology. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. ...

One can only support the weight of this world while on one’s knees. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 424

History seems to come down to two alternating periods: a sudden religious experience that propagates a new human type, [and] the slow proces...

The two most insufferable types of rhetoric are religious rhetoric and the rhetoric of art criticism. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

Periods of political stability are periods of religious stability. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 412

A cloud of incense is worth a thousand sermons. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 410

Ritualism is the discreet guardian of spirituality. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 410

Religious thought does not go forward, like scientific thought, but rather goes deeper. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 409

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion’s case were not just as serious. Escolios a un Tex...

The psychological study of conversions only produces flowers of rhetoric. God’s ways are secret. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

Approaching religion through art is not the caprice of an aesthete: aesthetic experience spontaneously tends to expand into a presentiment o...