"What is called progress are preparations for a catastrophe."

"Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god."

"The philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows. He says nothing to someone who does not see."

"To educate is not to transmit instructions, but rather aversions and fervors."

"In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule."

"Those who seek a solution to their problems in religion are mistaken. Religion is not a set of solutions, but a set of problems."

(Nicolás Gómez Dávila)