English translations of the aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The original Spanish is:La historia no muestra la ineficacia de los actos sino la vanidad de los propósitos.
Cf. Notas, p. 367:"History does not teach the uselessness of an individual's action, but rather the vanity of it."What it shows is not the ineffectiveness of his acts, but the at times comical discrepancy between the goals intended and the results achieved."
The original Spanish is:
ReplyDeleteLa historia no muestra la ineficacia de los actos sino la vanidad de los propósitos.
Cf. Notas, p. 367:
ReplyDelete"History does not teach the uselessness of an individual's action, but rather the vanity of it.
"What it shows is not the ineffectiveness of his acts, but the at times comical discrepancy between the goals intended and the results achieved."