March 12, 2011

#2,940

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No thesis is expounded with clarity except when it manages to be expounded by an intelligent man who does not share it. Escolios a un Texto ...
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#2,939

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Everything in the world ultimately rests on its own final “just because.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 469
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#2,938

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Baroque, preciosity, modernism, are noble failings, but failings in the end. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 469
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#2,937

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An individual is defined less by his contradictions than by the way he comes to terms with them. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...
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#2,936

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The modern clergy, in order to save the institution, try to rid themselves of the message. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 469
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#2,935

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The so-called prejudices of the upper classes tend to consist of accumulated experiences. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 468
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March 11, 2011

#2,934

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There are moments when the worst failing, the worst offense, the worst sin, seems to be bad manners. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...
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#2,933

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The Church used to educate; the pedagogy of the modern world only instructs. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 468
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#2,932

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After having been, in the last century, the instrument of political radicalism, universal suffrage is becoming, as Tocqueville foresaw, a co...
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#2,931

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Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influen...
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#2,930

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We do not know anything perfectly except what we do not feel capable of teaching. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 468
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#2,929

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“To have faith in man” does not reach the level of blasphemy; it is just one more bit of stupidity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...
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March 10, 2011

#2,928

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Envy is the key to more stories than sex. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 467
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#2,927

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The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own. Escolios a un...
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#2,926

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Demographic pressure makes people brutish. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 467
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#2,925

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It is not in the hands of popular majorities where power is most easily perverted; it is in the hands of the semi-educated. Escolios a un Te...
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#2,924

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The majority of properly modern customs would be crimes in an authentically civilized society. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....
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#2,923

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The Christian knows with certainty what his personal behavior should be, but he can never state for certain that he is not making a mistake ...
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March 9, 2011

#2,922

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The fool, seeing that customs change, says that morality varies. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 467
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#2,921

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In a healthy society, the state is the organ of the ruling class; in a hunchbacked society, the state is the instrument of a bureaucratic cl...
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#2,920

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Unjust inequality is not remedied by equality, but by just inequality. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 466
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#2,919

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Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 466
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#2,918

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The people is sometimes right when it is frightened; but is always wrong when it becomes enthusiastic. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...
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#2,917

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The golden rule of politics is to make only minimal changes and to make them as slowly as possible. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...
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March 8, 2011

#2,916

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Faith is part intuition and part wager. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 466
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#2,915

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The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....
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#2,914

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The peddlers of cultural objects would not be annoying if they did not sell them with the rhetoric of an apostle. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...
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#2,913

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The heresy that threatens the Church, in our time, is “worldliness.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 465
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#2,912

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The industrialization of agriculture is stopping up the source of decency in the world. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 465
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#2,911

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Boring, like an illustrious foreign visitor. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 465
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March 7, 2011

#2,910

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The true Christian should not resign himself to the inevitable: he should trust in the impertinence of a repeated prayer. Escolios a un Text...
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#2,909

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Nothing is more irritating than the certainty with which a man who has had success in one thing gives his opinion on everything. Escolios a ...
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#2,908

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The social sciences abound in problems that are unintelligible by their very nature to both the American professor and the Marxist intellect...
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#2,907

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In addition to civilized societies and semi-civilized societies, there are pseudo-civilized societies. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...
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#2,906

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An education without the humanities prepares one only for servile occupations. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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#2,905

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Evening dress is the first step toward civilization. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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March 6, 2011

#2,904

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Modern man lost his soul and is no longer anything but the sum total of his behaviors. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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#2,903

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The people today does not feel free except when it feels authorized to respect nothing. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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#2,902

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Perfect prose is prose which the ingenuous reader does not notice is well written. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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#2,901

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Only the years teach us to deal with our ignorance tactfully. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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#2,900

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Monarchs, in almost every dynasty, have been so mediocre that they look like presidents. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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#2,899

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Civilization does not conquer definitively: it only celebrates sporadic victories. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 464
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March 5, 2011

#2,898

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Words are born among the people, flourish among writers, and die in the mouth of the middle class. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ...
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#2,897

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None of the high points of history has been planned. The reformer can only be credited with errors. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...
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#2,896

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Educating the individual consists in teaching him to distrust the ideas that occur to him. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 463
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#2,895

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It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence. Escolios a un T...
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#2,894

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Whereas contemporaries read only the optimist with enthusiasm, posterity rereads the pessimist with admiration. Escolios a un Texto Implícit...
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#2,893

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Man’s full depravity does not become clear except in great urban agglomerations. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 463
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March 4, 2011

#2,892

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The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demo...
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#2,891

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I have seen philosophy gradually fade away between my skepticism and my faith. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 462
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