Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Once the intoxication of youth is over, only commonplaces appear to us to deserve careful examination. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

A prolonged childhood—permitted by industrial society’s current prosperity—redounds merely in a growing number of infantilized adults. Escol...

The only societies more odious than those which infuriate the rebellious youth are those which he innocently helps to construct. Escolios a ...

Each new generation, in this century, enters shouting that it has something new to do and exits saying that it only has something new to lam...

The most pitiful thing about a youth’s “intellectual concerns” are the stupid things with which he relieves them. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

A youth’s revolutionary activity is the rite of passage between adolescence and the bourgeoisie. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

The book that “today's youth” adopts needs to do decades of penance to atone for the silly ideas it inspires. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

When a language is undergoing corruption, its speakers believe it is being brought up to date. In the youthfulness of contemporary prose the...

The distance between interlocutors of different generations is proportional to the stupidity of each interlocutor. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

Youths are not necessarily revolutionary but rather necessarily dogmatic. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 257

A youth, normally, ends up resembling the adult he most despises. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 242

There are no more old people, only decrepit youths. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 242

Each new generation criticizes the previous one, only to commit, in analogous circumstances, the opposite mistake. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

Intellectual honesty is a virtue which every successive generation presumes it is practicing for the first time. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

Youths sail in a sea of conformity without noticing it. In each wave pulling it along, youths notice only the short-lasting foam differenti...

Whoever does not get a head start on his old age does not prolong his youth, but corrupts even his memories. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: ...

The souls of youths would not be so boring if they did not exhibit them so freely. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 169

The distance between young and old is the same today as it has always been. Today people speak of the generation “gap” because today’s adul...

The revolutionary attitude of modern youth is unequivocal proof of their aptitude for a career in administration. Revolutions are perfect i...

A youth takes pride in his youth as if it were not a privilege enjoyed by even the most idiotic. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...