Freedom as Means and End by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

„Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.“

Nicolás Gómez DávilaAphorism by Nicolás Gómez Dávila on freedom as a means, not an end. A philosophical reflection on the meaning of liberty.
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Nicolás Gómez Dávila was a Colombian philosopher and conservative thinker known for his sharp aphorisms and critical social analyses.

This aphorism by Nicolás Gómez Dávila highlights freedom as a tool and warns against misunderstanding its purpose.


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Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) was a Colombian philosopher and conservative intellectual noted especially for his aphoristic writings. His works critically examine modern ideologies and political systems with a distinctive and often provocative style. He is considered an important conservative thinker in the Spanish-speaking world.

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"But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths." Edmund Burke
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"Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice." Walter Lippmann
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