Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

We should welcome every adventure, without pagan dread or idiotic presumption. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 375

He who does not know how to condemn without fear does not know how to appreciate without apprehension. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

The bourgeois does not applaud the man he admires, but the man he fears. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 252

In politics we should distrust even intelligent optimism and trust the imbecile’s fears. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 246

Impartiality is the child of laziness and fear. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 129

The “general will” is the fiction which allows the democrat to pretend that there is a reason, other than simple fear, to bow to a majority....

Fear is the secret engine of this century’s endeavors. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 83

It is enough for a few wings to brush us and ancestral fears will reawaken. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 38