Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.
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.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.
Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.
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.
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
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 God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies fromindifference toward the unique values which created it.
The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.
