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About Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century. He became known during the last few years of his life, particularly through German translations of his works. Gómez Dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity; his work consists almost entirely of aphorisms he called escolios (that is, glosses or annotations).
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“Philosophy is a literary genre.”
“With God there are only individuals.”
“Individualism is the cradle of vulgarity.”
“Poetry has died, asphyxiated by metaphors.”
“Poetry is the fingerprint of God in human clay.”
“Every non-hierarchical society is divided in two.”
“Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”
“Intellectual vulgarity attracts voters like flies.”
“The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.”
“Vulgarity consists in pretending to be what we are not.”
“God prefers an uncircumcised heart to a castrated mind.”
“The individual shrinks in proportion as the state grows.”
“There is an illiteracy of the soul that no diploma cures.”
“Excess of politeness paralyzes; the lack of it brutalizes.”
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Nicolás Gómez Dávila on Science
“Nothing makes clearer the limits of science than the scientist’s opinions about any topic that is not strictly related to his profession.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila on Progress
About Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century. He became known during the last few years of his life, particularly through German translations of his works. Gómez Dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity; his work consists almost entirely of aphorisms he called escolios (that is, glosses or annotations).