#2,194

The ease with which industrial capitalism constructs and destroys—obeying clear precepts of profitability—transforms the average man into an intellectual, moral, and physical nomad.
Whatever is permanent today is an obstacle.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 357

#1,579

The universalism of the plastic medieval languages took shape as regional variations, whereas the local varieties of the current cosmopolitan art are mere solecisms of pronunciation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 263

#1,472

That patriotism which is not a carnal adhesion to specific landscapes, is rhetoric designed by semi-educated men to spur the illiterate on towards the slaughterhouse.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 248

#941

Contemporary thinkers differ among each other in the same way as do international hotels, whose uniform structure is superficially adorned with indigenous motifs.
When, in truth, the only interesting thing is mental localism which expresses itself in a cosmopolitan vocabulary.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 170