Josh Pendergrass

“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships.
Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he’s concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“When Famous Shoes finished his song he noticed that the young white man was asleep. During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings. Perhaps even then the song he had just sung was working in the young man’s dreams; perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them. Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, such as the trackless flight of birds, could never be explained.”
― Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon

“In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms