Creio seja totalmente desconhecido em nossas terras o filósofo colombiano Nicolás Gómez Dávila; até hoje, nunca me encontrei com ninguém que o conhecesse. Mas isso não há de ficar barato.

Por ora, espero que fiquem contentes com alguns aforismos – que constituem quase 100% da sua obra, publicados em Escolios a un texto implícito. Já aviso que para alguns será paixão à primeira vista. Infelizmente ou felizmente, minha seleção foi feita com base em traduções para o inglês.

An “ideal society” would be the graveyard of human greatness.

The individual shrinks in proportion as the state grows.

To think like our contemporaries is a recipe for prosperity and stupidity.

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

Modern man destroys more when he builds than when he destroys.

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.

Civilization seems to be the invention of a species now extinct.

Those who proclaim that the noble is despicable end up by proclaiming that the despicable is noble.

The importance of an event is inversely proportional to the space which the newspapers devote to it.

Truth is so subtle that it never inspires as much confidence as an erroneous thesis.

The function of revolutions is to destroy the illusions that created them.