English translations of the aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila
January 21, 2011
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Modern man is ignorant of the positive quality of silence. He does not know that there are many things of which one cannot speak without automatically disfiguring them.
The original Spanish is:
ReplyDeleteEl moderno ignora la positividad del silencio.
Ignora que son muchas las cosas de las cuales no se puede hablar sin deformarlas automáticamente.