#2,819

Once the intoxication of youth is over, only commonplaces appear to us to deserve careful examination.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,453

A prolonged childhood—permitted by industrial society’s current prosperity—redounds merely in a growing number of infantilized adults.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,405

The only societies more odious than those which infuriate the rebellious youth are those which he innocently helps to construct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 388

#2,391

Each new generation, in this century, enters shouting that it has something new to do and exits saying that it only has something new to lament.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 386

#2,119

The most pitiful thing about a youth’s “intellectual concerns” are the stupid things with which he relieves them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 346

#1,795

A youth’s revolutionary activity is the rite of passage between adolescence and the bourgeoisie.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 296

#1,793

The book that “today's youth” adopts needs to do decades of penance to atone for the silly ideas it inspires.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 295

#1,653

When a language is undergoing corruption, its speakers believe it is being brought up to date.
In the youthfulness of contemporary prose there are views of carcasses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,540

The distance between interlocutors of different generations is proportional to the stupidity of each interlocutor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257

#1,534

Youths are not necessarily revolutionary but rather necessarily dogmatic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257

#1,434

A youth, normally, ends up resembling the adult he most despises.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 242

#1,432

There are no more old people, only decrepit youths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 242

#1,429

Each new generation criticizes the previous one, only to commit, in analogous circumstances, the opposite mistake.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 242

#1,336

Intellectual honesty is a virtue which every successive generation presumes it is practicing for the first time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,120

Youths sail in a sea of conformity without noticing it.
In each wave pulling it along, youths notice only the short-lasting foam differentiating it from the others, and not the common tide pushing them all together.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 197

#987

Whoever does not get a head start on his old age does not prolong his youth, but corrupts even his memories.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 178

#933

The souls of youths would not be so boring if they did not exhibit them so freely.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 169

#825

The distance between young and old is the same today as it has always been.
Today people speak of the generation “gap” because today’s adult refuses to become old and the youth, with all due disrespect, assures him that he is old.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 151

#782

The revolutionary attitude of modern youth is unequivocal proof of their aptitude for a career in administration.
Revolutions are perfect incubators of bureaucrats.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 141

#464

A youth takes pride in his youth as if it were not a privilege enjoyed by even the most idiotic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 91