Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Superficial, like the sociological explanation of any behavior. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 474

There is no sociological generalization that does not appear inadequate to the man to whom it applies. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

Those who replace the “letter” of Christianity with its “spirit” generally turn it into a load of socio-economic nonsense. Escolios a un Tex...

The sociologist never knows, when manipulating his statistics, where the relative figure matters and where the absolute figure matters. Esco...

The history of literary genres admits of sociological explanations. The history of works of literature does not. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

The descriptive use of social anecdotes has more characterological exactitude than statistical percentages. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: S...

Revolutions are more a subject for sociology than for history. Manifestations of those depths of human nature that nothing educates, nothing...

The conventional is not necessarily an aesthetic defect, since it is merely a sociological trait. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ,...

The alleged “laws of sociology” are more or less extensively documented historical facts. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 328

Sociology protects the sociologist from all contact with reality. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 254

Progressive Christians painstakingly search through sociology manuals for material with which to fill lacunae in the Gospel. Escolios a un T...

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 235

Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities. When confrontedy by the bull’s horns of a concrete case, they all l...

Those who wield a sociological vocabulary imagine they have understood because they have classified. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...

Let us accept sociology as long as it classifies and does not seek to explain. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 191

For a society that lives among statistics, to suspect that each unit is a unique person with his own destiny turns out to be troubling and a...

Physiology on one side, sociology on another, signed the partition of psychology. Personal life has been abolished, like the Polish Sejm . E...

The historian deals with history like an artist painting a portrait. The sociologist like a policeman adding to his file. Escolios a un Tex...

The most interesting chapter of sociology is yet to be written: that which studies the bodily repercussions of social events. Escolios a un ...

To interpret certain men, sociology is enough. Psychology is overkill. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 137