#1,591

Order paralyzes. Disorder convulses.
Inscribing a disorder instituted within an all-inclusive order was the miracle of feudalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 264

#1,579

The universalism of the plastic medieval languages took shape as regional variations, whereas the local varieties of the current cosmopolitan art are mere solecisms of pronunciation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 263

#1,289

Christianity, when it abolishes its ancient liturgical languages, degenerates into strange, uncouth sects.
Once contact is broken with Greek and Latin antiquity, once its medieval and patristic inheritance is lost, any simpleton turns into its exegete.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,095

To discover the fool there is no better reagent than the word “medieval.”
He immediately sees red.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 194

#1,056

The contemporary reader smiles when the medieval chronicler speaks of “Roman paladins,” but he remains serious when the Marxist discusses the “Greek bourgeoisie” or “American feudalism.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 188

#925

I am not a non-conformist modern intellectual but an indignant medieval peasant.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 168

#873

The Church was able to baptize medieval society because it was a society of sinners, but her future is not promising in modern society, where everyone believes he is innocent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 160

#660

Europe, properly speaking, consists of those countries educated by feudalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 122

#62

In medieval society, society is the state; in the bourgeois society, state and society confront each other; in the Communist society, the state is society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 33