Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"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."
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"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."
"في عصرٍ تبثُّ فيه وسائل الإعلام غثاءً لا يُحص"
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets"
"مسار إدراك الإنسان لنفسه يعلو حتى القرن السابع عشر، ثم ينحدر رويداً رويداً، وفي هذا القرن يهوي أخيراً."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy."
"إن الفوضى التي تهدد مجتمعاً آيلاً للانحطاط ليست عقابه، بل علاجه."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died."
"إن أعظم خطأ حديث ليس في إعلان موت الإله، بل في الاعتقاد بأن الشيطان قد مات."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals."
"من المستحيل إقناع الأحمق بأن هناك متعًا تسمو على تلك التي نشاركها مع سائر الحيوانات."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal."
"التسلسلات الهرمية سماوية. في الجحيم الكل سواسية."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding. It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"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."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"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."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"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."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"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."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience."
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