Nicolas Gomez Davila famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Unique #Civilization #Violence
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.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Men #Media #Age
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Hierarchy #Hell #Equal
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Freedom #Wall #Men
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Self Esteem #Succeed #Reason
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Promise #Religion #Answers
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Revolution #Campaigns #Election
Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Truth Is
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Echoes #Public Opinion #Opinion
The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Spiritual #Ideas #Ties
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

#Church #Today #Sin

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