Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila, aka Don Colacho. Managed by @matthewschmitz & @williamrandolph.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

Writing is the only way to distance oneself from the century in which it was one’s lot to be born.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

Charity can be the most subtle form of apostasy. [3/3]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

about the divinity of Christ and the existence of God. [2/3]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

Concerning himself intensely with his neighbor’s condition allows the Christian to dissimulate to himself his doubts [1/3]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

Envy tends to be the true force behind moral indignation.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

What is important is not that man believe in the existence of God; what is important is that God exist.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ. [6/6]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin. [5/6]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing. [4/6]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual [3/6]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect. [2/6]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, [1/6]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

The voter does not even vote for what he wants; he only votes for what he thinks he wants.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities-it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another’s duty. [3/3]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law. [2/3]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, [1/3]

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @DColacho]

Nobody in politics can foresee the consequences either of what he destroys, or of what he constructs.