Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

For the fool, obsolete opinion and erroneous opinion are synonymous expressions. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 456

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

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 whe...

A greater capacity for killing is the criterion of “progress” between two peoples or two epochs. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

When it finishes its “ascent,” humanity will find tedium waiting for it, seated on the highest peak. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...

Religious thought does not go forward, like scientific thought, but rather goes deeper. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 409

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

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...

The failure of progress has not consisted in the non-fulfillment but in the fulfillment of its promises. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sele...

The left no longer dares proclaim itself a hope, but at the most fate. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 365

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

What is called progress are preparations for a catastrophe. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 320

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

In the end, what does modern man call “Progress”? Whatever seems convenient to the fool. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 311

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 ...

Nothing cures the progressive. Not even the frequent panic attacks administered to him by progress. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...

The cost of progress is calculated in fools. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 291

Courtesy is an obstacle to progress. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 285

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 th...

Social improvements do not come from powerful shake-ups, but from light nudges. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 239