#2,953

Historical events stop being interesting the more accustomed their participants become to judging everything in purely secular categories.
Without the intervention of gods everything becomes boring.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,911

Boring, like an illustrious foreign visitor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,731

Knowing solves only subordinate problems, but learning protects against tedium.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,702

We are saved from daily tedium only by the impalpable, the invisible, the ineffable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,651

The only goals which it has occurred to the philosopher to set for human history are all tedious or sinister.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

#2,642

When it finishes its “ascent,” humanity will find tedium waiting for it, seated on the highest peak.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,624

Only the contemplation of the immediate saves us from tedium in this incomprehensible universe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 424

#2,534

In the society that is starting to take shape, not even the enthusiastic collaboration of the sodomite and the lesbian will save us from boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 407

#2,424

Human stupidity is so monotonous that not even a long experience adds to our collection of stupidities.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,229

Monotonous, like obscenity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 362

#1,876

Error does not seed well except in the shadow of the truth.
Even the devil becomes bored and excuses himself from where Christianity is being extinguished.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,855

Capitalism is the vulgar side of the modern soul, socialism its tedious side.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,352

If men were born equal, they would invent inequality to kill boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 232

#1,218

Authentic social transformations are not the work of frustration and envy, but the consequences of epidemics of disgust and boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212

#1,196

Boredom is the antonym of solitude.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 209

#1,012

A constant flow of news invades existence today, destroying the silence and peace of humble lives, without abolishing their tedium.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 181

#1,009

The world would be even more tedious if it were as easy to act as to dream.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 181

#803

Each individual calls “culture” the collection of things he regards with respectful boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 144

#580

Fleeing does not protect against tedium.
To save ourselves, it is necessary to domesticate that flabby, lumbering beast.
In tedium freely assumed bloom the noblest things.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 109

#495

If we demand that the object have only the form with which it best fulfills its functions, all objects of the same species converge ideally in a single form.
When technical solutions become perfect, man will die of boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 96