Wang-sun Chia asked: “What does this saying mean: ‘It is better to sacrifice to the god of the stove than…
Las civilizaciones son bullicio estival de insectos entre dos inviernos. Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters….
Revolutions swing back and forth between puritanism and debauchery, without touching civilized ground. – Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un…
We were aware that the visible earth is made of ashes, and that ashes signify something. Through the obscure depths…
Today the individual must reconstruct within himself the civilized universe that is disappearing around him. – Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios…
In the dedicatory preface to his 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, J. M. Barrie…
Not far from Germany’s border with the Netherlands, nestled between the meandering Lower Rhine Valley and the sodden marshland engirdling…
Apreciar lo antiguo, o lo moderno, es fácil; pero apreciar lo obsoleto es el triunfo del gusto auténtico. [To appreciate…
From our vantage point overlooking a broad, closely forested river valley, we gaze across the slow eddies of the watercourse…
I Maurice Berger, the French child psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor at the National School of Magistrates, has spent some four…
