Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The only pellucid dialogue is one between two recluses. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 447

Since philosophy is a dialogue, there is no reason to suppose that the last one to give his opinion is the one who is right. Escolios a un T...

Whoever insists on refuting idiotic arguments ends up doing so with stupid reasons. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 436

Dialogue with the imbecile poses difficulties: we never know where we harm him, when we scandalize him, [or] how we please him. Escolios a u...

With somebody for whom certain terms must be defined one must speak of some other topic. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 386

Reasons do not move, but arguments descend in time from intellectual class to intellectual class until they reach the ground. In discourses ...

Dialogue does not consist of intelligences discussing with each other but of vanities confronting each other. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

Conflicts rarely break out over the true disagreements. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 323

The ritualism of daily conversations mercifully hides from us just how basic the furnishings of the minds among which we live are. To avoid ...

The man who says he is respectful of all ideas is admitting that he is ready to give in. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 288

The sincere dialogue ends in a quarrel. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 280

Engaging in dialogue with those who do not share our postulates is nothing more than a stupid way to kill time. Escolios a un Texto Implícit...

When dialogue is the last resort, the situation is already hopeless. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 178

Confusion is the normal result of a dialogue. Except when a single author invents it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 170

The intention to engage in dialogue, today, presupposes the intention to betray. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 168

Dialogue perverts its participants. Either they are obstinate out of a desire to fight, or they give in out of laziness. Escolios a un Text...

In order to convince our interlocutors, it is often necessary to invent contemptible, deceitful, ridiculous arguments. Whoever respects his ...

The reactionary invented the dialogue upon observing differences among men and the variety of their intentions. The democrat engages in a m...

The inferior man is always right in an argument, because the superior man has condescended to argue. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...

To disagree is to assume a risk no one should assume but the mature and cautious conscience. Sincerity protects against neither error nor fo...