The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.
—Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Originality
5 October 2016 by 3 Comments
Toleration
28 September 2016 by Leave a Comment
To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.
—Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Relative truths
21 September 2016 by Leave a Comment
Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.
—Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Taste
14 September 2016 by 1 Comment
‘Taste is relative’ is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.
—Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Intellectuals and civilized men
7 September 2016 by Leave a Comment
The intellectual irritates the civilized man, just as the adolescent irritates the adult, not because of the audacity of his bright ideas but because of the triviality of his arrogance.
—Nicolás Gómez Dávila
(Hat tip to ‘John M.’, a commenter at John C. Wright’s blog.)
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