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If eroticism, sensuality, and love do not inform one another, they become disease, vice, and foolishness.
It is impossible to remain indifferent to the world surrounding the woman we love. Everything she touches is imbued with a sensual force.
Eroticism burns out on its own promises.
Nothing is more repugnant than what fools call harmonious and balanced sexual activity. Hygienic and methodical sexuality is the only perversion cursed by both demons and angels.
Having grown bored with trying, in vain, to suppress one of the two attributes my spirit spontaneously affirms, I think I must decide to keep them both, held tightly in my hands, without worrying about the contradiction everyone insists upon but which I myself do not sense. I speak, of course, of sensuality and religiosity.
Sex does not solve even sexual problems.
The accessibility and ubiquity of the erotic has, at the very least, revealed that virginity, chastity, and purity are not bitter and morbid old spinsters as once believed, but silent vestals of a pure flame.
The affectionate, attentive, and serious study of nudity contributes as much to our intellectual life as the most rigorous meditation.
Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world. Societies where the Greco-Roman imprint is being erased, or where it never existed, only know sentimentality and sexuality.
A great love is a well-ordered sensuality.
Love uses the vocabulary of sex to write a text unintelligible to sex alone.
The problem is not “sexual repression” or “sexual liberation,” but sex.
Sensuality: the ever-present possibility of rescuing the world from the captivity of its insignificance.
The 19th century did not experience more anguish due to sexual repression than the 20th century has with its sexual liberation. Opposite symptoms of the same obsession.
A naked body solves all the problems of the universe.
An increasing degradation is evident when comparing the expressions amorous adventure, a popular term in the 18th century, with sexual experience, the term from the 20th.
Sexual promiscuity is the tip society pays in order to placate its slaves.
Art is the supreme sensual pleasure.
Despite what is taught today, easy sex does not solve every problem.
A naked body is the key to a new universe.
Periods of sexual liberation reduce to a few spasmodic shouts the rich modulations of human sexuality.
Sexual problems begin where the modern thinks they end.
The slight smile, and the little gesture of surprise, and the momentary hesitation of your steps: my soul is captured, surely, more so by these than some possible encounter on a messy bed.
Note: Dávila was a Colombian political philosopher and in the Latin church. His aphorisms are presented here for the purposes of enjoyment, study, and historical record, but do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this writer. For more information on Dávila, see this introductory post. For information on how to live your life, go to church and read the Church Fathers/Saints.
Featured image: Dávila in his library
