Nicolás Gómez Dávila on Time
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila and filed under "time" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila, entry #147076: "Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion."
Attributed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila, entry #221326: "Whoever says that he "belongs to his time" is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment."
8 Quotes by Nicolás Gómez Dávila on Time
"Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion."
"Whoever says that he "belongs to his time" is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment."
"To have a dialog with those who do not share our basic premises is nothing more than a stupid way to kill time."
"Egalitarian ideas distort our perception of the present and, in addition, mutilate our vision of the past."
"For the myth of a past golden age, present day humanity substitutes the myth of a future plastic age."
"The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins."
"Politics is the pastime of empty souls."
"Only the problems of his time seem important to the fool."