#don colacho

[amplexi]

Los hombres cambian menos de ideas que las ideas de disfraz.  En el decurso de los siglos las mismas voces dialogan.

Don Colacho’s Aphorisms: #1

from  Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, by  Nicolás Gómez Dávila (“Don Colacho”),  p. 25

The Spanish is translated, “Men change ideas less than ideas change disguise.  Through the course of the centuries the same voices are in dialogue.”

[faustian-guise]

Those who live in the twilight of history imagine that the day is being born when night is approaching.

- Don Colacho

[lachrimaeantiquae]

To democratize Christianity they have to falsify the texts, reading “equal” where they say “brother.” My brothers? Yes. My equals? No. Because there are older and younger brothers.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

[tail-feathers]

The fact that nothing in this world fulfills us does not prevent us from longing for a world that is less ignoble and less ugly.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

[tail-feathers]

🔹History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man’s ability.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

[tail-feathers]

Modern society works feverishly to put vulgarity within everyone’s reach.

As long as the entertainment is sufficiently vulgar, nobody protests.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

[faustian-guise]

"Ideologies were invented so that men who do not think can give their opinions."

-Nicolás Gómez Dávila (Don Colacho)

[absinthe-dasein]

Historie & Skjebne

Historien er den skjebnen som friheten skaper, og som tilfeldigheten tilintetgjør.

-Don Colacho