Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Puzzles

• ___ ideas are immortal. Each new generation invents them anew.
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• Poetry is the ___ of God in human clay.
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• The ___ of an old man imagines itself to be wisdom; that of an adult, experience; that of a youth, genius.
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• Whoever ___s us never forgives us for his act of ___al.
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• Excess of ___ paralyzes; the lack of it brutalizes.
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• The function of ___ is to destroy the illusions that created them.
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• Nations and individuals, with rare exceptions, comport themselves with ___ only when circumstances permit no other choice.
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• Violence is not necessary to destroy a ___. Each ___ dies from indifference to the unique values which created it.
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• Every ___ seems trivial to the one who does not understand the problem.
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• Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of ___.
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• There is nothing more common than transforming a duty which ___ us into an "ethical problem."
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• Ideas of the left give birth to ___. ___ give birth to ideas of the right.
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• Imitation, in the arts, is less harmful than ___.
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• Nowadays public ___ is not the sum of private ___s. On the contrary, private ___s are an echo of public ___.
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• Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ___s, but in handling any ___ intelligently.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila?

  • → To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.
  • → Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
  • → There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.
  • → The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

  • → To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.
  • → If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
  • → Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
  • → The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

  • → To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.
  • → Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
  • → There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.
  • → If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
  
  [ Click here to find out ]