Are you familiar with the reactionary aphorist Nicolás Gómez Dávila? You should be. Here are a few morsels, to whet your appetite:
– “Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.”
– “Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.”
– “Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”
– “Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.”
– “I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”
– “Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.”
– “When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.”
– “Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday’s progressive.”
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