#2,847

For the fool, obsolete opinion and erroneous opinion are synonymous expressions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456

#2,813

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451

#2,663

To criticize a present in the name of a past can be futile, but to have criticized it in the name of a future can turn out to be risible when that future arrives.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,662

A greater capacity for killing is the criterion of “progress” between two peoples or two epochs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,642

When it finishes its “ascent,” humanity will find tedium waiting for it, seated on the highest peak.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,545

Religious thought does not go forward, like scientific thought, but rather goes deeper.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,381

The only possible progress is the internal progress of each individual.
A process that concludes with the end of each life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 385

#2,317

The horror of progress can only be measured by someone who has known a landscape before and after progress has transformed it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 376

#2,280

The failure of progress has not consisted in the non-fulfillment but in the fulfillment of its promises.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 370

#2,247

The left no longer dares proclaim itself a hope, but at the most fate.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#1,977

Each new generation, in the last two centuries, ends up looking with nostalgia on that which appeared abominable to the previous generation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,966

What is called progress are preparations for a catastrophe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,936

It does not appear that the humanities, in contrast to the natural sciences, reach a state of maturity where anything idiotic is automatically obvious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,901

In the end, what does modern man call “Progress”?
Whatever seems convenient to the fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 311

#1,861

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of “progress,” when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,833

Nothing cures the progressive.
Not even the frequent panic attacks administered to him by progress.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,760

The cost of progress is calculated in fools.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,717

Courtesy is an obstacle to progress.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 285

#1,520

It is possible to inculcate in the contemporary bourgeois any stupid idea in the name of progress and to sell him any grotesque object in the name of art.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 255

#1,410

Social improvements do not come from powerful shake-ups, but from light nudges.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 239