“When it comes to specifying the values particular to paganism, people have generally listed features such as these: an eminently aristocratic conception of the human individual; an ethics founded on honor (“shame” rather than “sin”); an heroic attitude toward life’s… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“One can have a society without God,” writes Régis Debray, “but there cannot be a society without religion.” He adds, “Those nations on the… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what is all too often claimed, voters do not wish the men they have elected to be in their image. Voters love… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Yahweh would have preferred that man had not emerged from “nature.” This is the meaning of the story told in the first chapters of… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“There is no need to ”believe” in Jupiter or Wotan—something that is no more ridiculous then believing in Yahweh however—to be pagan. Contemporary paganism does not consist of erecting altars to Apollo or reviving the worship of Odin. Instead it implies looking behind religion and, according to a now classic itinerary, seeking for the “mental equipment” that produced it, the… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share
“Faith and science thus find themselves reconciled, not in the way of the scholastic, who claims to prove the reality of his dogmatic propositions… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from using all… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than culture whose effect is the emancipation of reflective consciousness from the repetitious constraints of the species. What this means especially is that man is given the possibility of going beyond himself and transforming. In other words, to ensure… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share
“If all men are brothers outside of any specifically human paradigm then no one can truly be a brother. The institution of a symbolically… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“As only God has an absolute value, everything that is not God can have only relative value. To be created means that one’s being is not due to oneself but to something other than oneself. This creates a perpetual sense of self-loss within one’s own state of unfulfillment. It means that one is not self-sufficient but a dependent being—one’s state… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share
“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.” — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the return to… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
