Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 462

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground s...

To do what we ought to do is the content of the Tradition. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 436

We usually share with our predecessors more opinions than ways of reaching them. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 411

The disappearance of the peasantry and of the classical humanities ruptured the continuity with the past. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

The past appears not to have left any heirs. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 349

Our spiritual inheritance is so opulent that today an astute fool has only to exploit it in order to seem more intelligent to a slow-witted ...

During its journey, humanity gets sores on its feet from everything except its old shoes. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 302

Intelligence is enabled to discover new truths by rediscovering old truths. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 293

Traditional technology used to educate, because the mastery of it transmitted gestures integrated into a way of life; the teaching of ration...

Tradition is a work of the spirit which, in turn, is a work of the tradition. When a tradition perishes the spirit is extinguished, and the ...

Hatred of the past is an unequivocal sign that a society is becoming more plebeian. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 249

Christianity, when it abolishes its ancient liturgical languages, degenerates into strange, uncouth sects. Once contact is broken with Gree...

Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over. And every origin is bloody. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. ...

Where we hear today the words “order, authority, tradition,” somebody is lying. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 215

A soul is cultured if in it the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 20...

The irruption of non-European history into the Western tradition is an episode in the intellectual life of the 19th century. The participant...

Unless we inherit a spiritual tradition to interpret it, life experience teaches us nothing. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 2...

Only the soul anchored in the past is not shipwrecked in night storms. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 192