Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.

Depopulate and reforest—first civilizing rule.

The problem is not sexual repression, nor sexual liberation, but sex.

No beneficiary of slaves is supporter of birth control.

Modern society is abolishing prostitution through promiscuity.

The believer is superior to the nonbeliever because unbelief is a solution whereas faith is a problem.

Eugenics appals those who fear its judgment.

The correct use of freedom can consist in embracing a destiny, but my freedom consists in being able to refuse to do that. The right to fail is an important right of man.

We live because we do not view ourselves with the same eyes with which everybody else views us.

Puritanism is the attitude that befits the decent man in the world today.

In the end, there is no area of the soul sex would not succeed in corrupting.

Sexual promiscuity is the tip society pays in order to appease its slaves.

Prayer is the only act in whose effectiveness I trust.

The two most pressing problems of the contemporary world: demographic expansion and genetic deterioration are unsolvable. Liberal principles prevent the solution of the first, egalitarian ones that of the second.

The people with whom we speak every day and our favorite authors cannot belong to the same zoological species.

The recluse is humanity’s delegate to what is important.

It is not worth talking about even one erotic topic with someone who does not feel the unalterable baseness of erotism.

We spend a life trying to understand what a stranger understands at a glance: that we are just as insignificant as the rest.

The being one finds oneself to be is also in the end a stranger to us.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913—1994)