Elie Wiesel vs. Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Elie Wiesel
1928 – 2016
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indiffere…"
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
1913 – 1994
Nicolás Gómez Dávila was a Colombian philosopher and aphorist sometimes referred to as "Nietzsche from the Andes."
"For the myth of a past golden age, present day humanity substitutes the myth of a future plastic age."
Connections
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