dimecres, 28 de setembre del 2011

"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

diumenge, 25 de setembre del 2011

"El perdón es la forma sublime del desprecio"

Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Escolios a un texto implícito

dijous, 22 de setembre del 2011

"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

dilluns, 19 de setembre del 2011

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

divendres, 16 de setembre del 2011

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

Lessing

dimarts, 13 de setembre del 2011

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

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

dissabte, 10 de setembre del 2011

"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

dimecres, 7 de setembre del 2011

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

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

diumenge, 4 de setembre del 2011

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

G.K.Chesterton. Autobiography

dijous, 1 de setembre del 2011

“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