#2,865

The immigration of the peasant into the cities was less disastrous than that of the notable from the people.
Rural society, on the one hand, lost the structure of prestige that used to discipline it, and the notable, on the other, was transformed into an anonymous particle of the amorphous human mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,785

The lower truths tend to eclipse the highest truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,673

When one is confronted by diverse “cultures,” there are two symmetrically erroneous attitudes: to admit only one cultural standard, and to grant all standards the same rank.
Neither the overweening imperialism of the European historian of yesterday, nor the shameful relativism of the European historian of today.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,664

The world becomes filled with contradictions when we forget that things have ranks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,657

Where even the last vestige of feudal ties disappears, the increasing social isolation of the individual and his increasing helplessness fuse him into a totalitarian mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,655

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

#2,575

Truths do not contradict each other except when they fall out of order.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,517

Pleasures abound as long as we do not confuse their ranks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 405

#2,510

He who knows how to prefer does not exclude.
He puts in order.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 404

#2,488

In a hierarchical society imagination’s force is disciplined and does not unhinge the individual as it does in a democratic society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,483

Discipline, order, hierarchy, are aesthetic values.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,454

The absence of legal hierarchies facilitates the rise of the less scrupulous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,445

Loyalty to a doctrine ends in adherence to the interpretation we give it.
Only loyalty to a person frees us from all self-complacency.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 394

#2,103

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 340

#2,007

Authentic superiority is intolerable for the fool.
Its simulacra, on the other hand, fascinate him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326

#1,978

The authentic individual cannot be added up; he can only be placed in order.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,968

Individualism is not the antithesis of totalitarianism but a condition of it.
Totalitarianism and hierarchy, on the other hand, are terminal positions of contrary movements.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,965

Socialism arose as nostalgia for the social unity destroyed by bourgeois atomism.
But it did not understand that social unity is not the totalitarian condensing of individuals, but the systematic totality of a hierarchy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,925

The absolutist wishes for a sovereign force that will subdue all others, the liberal a multitude of weak forces that will neutralize each other.
But the axiological commandment decrees hierarchies of multiple vigorous and active forces.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,917

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 313