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It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences his intentions effectively include.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The reactionary is that fool who possesses the vanity to judge history, and the immorality to come to terms with it.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The most repulsive and grotesque spectacle is that of the superiority of a living professor over a dead genius.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
An American historian cannot write history without lamenting that providence did not consult him beforehand.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Discipline is not so much a social necessity as an aesthetic obligation.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Feudal anarchy" is the word which democratic terrorism uses to slander the only period of tangible freedom known to us.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Sociological categories authorize us to move about in society without paying attention to each man's irreplaceable individuality. Sociology is the ideology of our indifference toward our neighbor.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The progressive's cardinal syllogism is simply beautiful: the best always triumphs, because what triumphs is called the best.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion's case were not just as serious.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
To excuse his attacks against the world, man determined that matter is inert.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Ingratitude, disloyalty, resentment, rancor define the plebeian soul in every age and characterize this century.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Eugenics appals those who fear its judgment.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Nietzsche is merely rude; Hegel is blasphemous.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Salvador Allende: Contra Judíos, Homosexuales y otros ´degenerados´".
~ Unknown
Este acercamiento entusiasmó tanto a la Unión Soviética, que en el mismo año de 1964 instaló en Chile una residencia legal de la KGB[4] en Santiago.
~ Unknown
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. -- About Paris
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
John the Baptist would have looked debonair in comparison, even after Salome got her prize.
~ Unknown
There's the Oxford comma, but I like the Shatner comma. It's when you pepper them in, so, you know where, to add, dramatic pauses.
~ Unknown
Griffin just grins, "You're welcome," he says. Then he adds, "You live across the street from Nicole, right? Maybe Ally will be there." Ha! I should have known.
~ Nicole Melanie Marks