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Nicolás Gómez Dávila: top 300 quotes
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Law (n.) is the easiest method of exercising tyranny.
Law (n.) is to be held in moderation, for an excess of laws emasculates.
Law (n.) is not what an act of the will decrees, but what intelligence discovers.
The American (n.) is not intolerable because he believes he is important individually, but because he possesses, insofar as he is an American, the solution to every problem.
History (n.) is a picture book rather than a repertoire of notions.
History (n.) allows for understanding, but it does not require absolution.
History (n.) charges a high price for the destruction of one if its rare successes.
History (n.) clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man’s ability.
History (n.) exhibits too many useless corpses for any finality to be attributed to it.
History (n.) exhibits two types of anarchy: that which emanates from a plurality of forces and that which derives from a plurality of weaknesses.
History (n.) seems to come down to two alternating periods: a sudden religious experience that propagates a new human type, [and] the slow process of dismantling that type.
History (n.) shows that man’s good ideas are accidental and his mistakes methodical.
History (n.) subjectively makes us change taste and objectively makes things change flavor.
History (n.) is distorted by every strict classification of an historical event.
History (n.) is made up of events that in every case begin before where we think they begin, and end after where we think they end.
History (n.) is multicausal. The historian who speaks of cause, and not of causes, should be fired immediately.
History (n.) is a series of nights and days. Of short days and long nights.
History (n.) is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence “Freedom,” but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.
History (n.) is irreversible. But it is not unrepeatable.
History (n.) is less the evolution of humanity than the unfolding of facets of human nature.
History (n.) is what is reconstructed by an imagination capable of thinking the consciousness of others. The rest is politics.
Freedom (n.) is not the goal of history, but the material with which it works.
Progress's (n.) cost is calculated in fools.
Progress (n.) is a thing which, unable to achieve what it desires, it christens what it achieves desire.
Progress's (n.) horror can only be measured by someone who has known a landscape before and after progress has transformed it.
Progress (n.) is the scourge God has chosen for us.
Thinking (n.) is often reduced to inventing reasons to doubt the obvious.
Boredom (n.) is the antonym of solitude.