Quotes by Nicols Gmez Dvila

“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.”

“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.”

“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”

“To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.”

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

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.”

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

“Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.”

“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”

“Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the readers soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.”

“In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.”

“Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.”

“Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.”

“The particular creature we love is never Gods rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.”

“Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”

“To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.”

“Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.”

“It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.”

“The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.”