"El mal no está en los gobiernos, el mal está en los gobernados; el mal está en que los gobernados han llegado a ser ingobernables"

Donoso Cortés. Discursos políticos

"El perdón es la forma sublime del desprecio"

Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Escolios a un texto implícito

"A true political or social order requires the soul to be like a Gothic cathedral, with selfish stresses and strains helping to hold it up"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"L'habitude de l'inattention doit être considérée comme le plus grand vice de l'esprit démocratique"

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Beautiful men made beautiful statues, and the city had beautiful statues in part to thank for beautiful citizens"

Lessing

"A society's greatest madness seems normal to itself"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"Indignation is the soul's defense against the wound of doubt about its own; it reorders the cosmos to support the justice of its cause"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"People become more alike, for want of knowing they can be otherwise"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"Only the reasonable dogma lives enough to be called antiquated"

G.K.Chesterton. Autobiography

“To realise the relative vailidity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly, is what destinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian”

Joseph Schumpeter