The Rocky Terrain of Commonplaces

 

• Hastiada de deslizarse por la cómoda pendiente de las opiniones atrevidas, la inteligencia al fin se interna en los parajes fragosos de los lugares comunes.
• Tired of slipping off the comfortable slope of daring opinions, intelligence finally settles in the rocky terrain of commonplaces.

The intelligent man’s unjust judgements

 

What about my unjust judgements?  

Love & Hate do not create

 

• Amor u odio no son creadores, sino reveladores, de calidades que nuestra indiferencia opaca.
• Love and hate do not create, but reveal, qualitieswhich our indifference obscures.

I use NGD translations to improve my Spanish comprehension.

What reason considers impossible

 

....makes the heart overflow.  

We often can't explain why we like what we do.

This aphorism is like a line of poetry, it explains better the human condition better than a long prose piece ever could.

The Greatest Modern Error

 A streak of evil runs through everyone.

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Personality in our time

 The fool is seemingly impressed by glibness.

Welcome to the AKNGD Blog: Here are some goodies to entice you!

 The idea just came into my head to do this blog.  I have a vague idea what I'll do with it.  Suffice to say that Nicolás Gómez Dávila is my favorite philosopher and that I have added content to the web to make his thought more accessible.

 For example

Here is a video I have done of NGD's aphorisms.  I upload them to WeChat, Youtube, and Rumble.

Here is my Youtube NGD playlist.  Over 170 videos as of this blog posting.

Here is a compilation of NGD aphorisms that I made into a pdf and that you can download.