"No matter what conservatives may think, traditions had a beginning that was not traditional"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"Evita el canvi radical dels teus costums ni que sigui per millorar-los"

Cardenal Mazzarino. Breviari dels polítics

"Ser reaccionario es saber que solo descubrimos lo que creemos inventar"

Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Textos

"Si alguna vegada convé que abandonis els viaranys de la virtut, que sigui sense caure en els camins del vici"

Cardenal Mazzarino. Breviari dels polítics

"És alguna cosa que em començà d'infant, una certa veu que cada cop que es fa sentir em desaconsella alguna cosa que volia fer, però que mai no m'impulsa a obrar"

Sòcrates a Plató. Defensa de Sòcrates

"Si los gobiernos representativos viven de discusiones sabias, mueren de discusiones interminables"

Donoso Cortés. Discursos políticos

"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

"The only important political distinction in the area is that between the use of force and the use of persuasion"

Richard Rorty. Contingency, irony, and solidarity

"La veritat amb prou feines ocupa més de tres línies"

Günter Grass

"Orwell, it may be said, came to respect the old bourgeois virtues because they were stupid -that is, because they resisted the power of abstract ideas. And he came to love things, material possessions, for the same reason"

Lionel Trilling

"Puesto que la amistad es incompatible con la verdad, el único diálogo que vale la pena es el que mantenemos con nuestros enemigos."

Emil Cioran

"Except for the nine firts months of its existence, no human being manages its affairs as well as a plant"

Bernard Shaw

"A problem well put is half-solved"

John Dewey

"Some ideas are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool"

George Orwell

"El que no és tradició és plagi"

Eugeni d'Ors

"There is no reason why an authentic prophet should be likable"

Harold Bloom