Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The "glosses" of Colombian reactionary Nicolás Gómez Dávila, aka "Don Colacho."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Watching the expert suffer some disgrace is always a nice spectacle."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"The authentic revolutionary rebels in order to abolish the society he hates; today’s revolutionary rises up to inherit the one he covets."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"To be a leftist is to judge the adversary not only guilty of his crimes but also of your own."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Those who defend revolutions cite speeches;
those who accuse them cite facts."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Anyone who is forty years old has the unbearable mindset of a teenager. At least the impertinence of the young man is unsure of itself, while the petulance of the mature man does not suspect its own inanity."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"The insolence of the adolescent is nothing more than the bucking of an ass as he settles into the stable.
Whereas the insolence of the adult brusquely casting off his shoulders the back-breaking years of tolerance and patience is an admirable sight."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Reading Homer in the early morning, and the serenity, calm, and deep sense of moral and physical well-being with which it infuses us, is the best viaticum for enduring the vulgarities of the day."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"The idea of 'perfection' is a stumbling block for those who do not understand that all perfection is the product of a thousand unsuccessful and ruined attempts."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

nothing more than debased expressions of a debased man. Sooner or later, what man is and what he does will be reflected in these works.
What am I saying! They are reflected! They are the very substance of his works."
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[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Everyday life, given over to itself, is not the only victim of the isolation of the spirit from that very life. There is something more terrible than philosophy becoming logical formalism, or science a mere accumulation of technical recipes,
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[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

that crowd-pleasing painting and music dominates the arts.
No, the worst thing is that tomorrow, the degraded and diminished man will be the only one to create philosophies, sciences, arts, and letters, and therefore, all of these activities will be
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[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"'Enemies of God'- extreme comedy! Our hostility should be reserved for more noble adversaries than these."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Sexual promiscuity is the tip society pays in order to placate its slaves."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"The controversy surrounding a work of art today is not an indication of aesthetic importance, but of profitability or political utility."

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[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Civilizations differ in how they treat their slaves, but not in whether they have them."

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[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Dying in exile guarantees having not been at all average."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"A foolish criticism of what we detest incites us to defend it."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"The frankness of some writers is merely the exhibitionist impulse."

[Nicolás Gómez Dávila @TheDonColacho]

"Formal instruction does not cure foolishness, but arms it."

[Manlet Thorin @ManletThorin]

Imagine going to school for a PhD and coming out illiterate