#2,508

Certain traumas to a people’s soul appear to be the only acquired trait that is inherited.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403

#2,301

A nation does not “demystify” its past without impoverishing its present substance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,024

National histories have all finally flowed into a degenerate occidentalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 329

#1,766

The distances between nations, social classes, cultures, and races, are a little thing.
The fault line runs between the plebeian mind and the patrician mind.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,215

“To die” and “to disappear” are not synonyms when speaking of a nation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 212

#1,207

Revolutions destroy nothing of nations except their souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 211

#984

Nations or individuals—with rare exceptions—only behave themselves decently when circumstances do not allow for anything else.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 177

#434

The history of neither a people nor an individual is intelligible to us if we do not acknowledge that the individual’s or the people’s soul can die without either the people or the individual dying.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 87

#338

Individuals or nations have distinct virtues and identical defects.
Baseness is our common patrimony.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 72