Quotes by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

About Nicolás Gómez Dávila:

Nicolás Gómez Dávila is considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century.
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The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

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

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

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

Author Bio

  • NameNicolás Gómez Dávila
  • DescriptionColombian writer and philosopher
  • BornMay 18, 1913
  • DiedMay 17, 1994
  • CountryColombia
  • ProfessionWriter; Philosopher; Aphorist