#2,891

I have seen philosophy gradually fade away between my skepticism and my faith.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,755

Not all defeated men are decent, but all decent men end up being defeated.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,740

The spectacle of a failure is perhaps less melancholy than the spectacle of a triumph.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,719

The authentic vocation becomes indifferent to its failure or to its success.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,605

Whoever lives long years is present at the defeat of his cause.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 421

#2,316

Most of our failures are due to that property of empirical series by which they have neither a certain end nor a certain beginning.
Man rarely knows where he can start and where he can finish.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 375

#1,782

A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#1,763

The surest ways of winning are more disastrous than any defeat.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,744

Ethical rules vary; honor does not change.
A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his triumph.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 289

#1,529

Capable men accept degrading themselves in order to triumph.
And eventually they fail because they degraded themselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 256

#1,110

Frustration is the distinctive psychological characteristic of democratic society.
Where all may legitimately aspire to the summit, the entire pyramid is an accumulation of frustrated individuals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 196

#1,059

The intelligent man tends to fail because he does not dare to believe in the true extent of human stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 188

#646

There is no stupid idea which modern man is not capable of believing, as long as he avoids believing in Christ.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 120

#611

Man is nothing but the spectator of his impotence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 114

#327

Neither imitation of the past, nor of the present, is an infallible remedy.
Nothing saves the mediocre from their mediocrity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 70

#181

Man hobbles through disappointments supported by small, trivial successes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 49

#109

Something divine blossoms in the moment preceding triumph and following failure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 39