Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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

A nation does not “demystify” its past without impoverishing its present substance. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 373

National histories have all finally flowed into a degenerate occidentalism. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 329

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

“To die” and “to disappear” are not synonyms when speaking of a nation. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 212

Revolutions destroy nothing of nations except their souls. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 211

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

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 ...

Individuals or nations have distinct virtues and identical defects. Baseness is our common patrimony. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...