Julius Evola Quotes

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• Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or…
• The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
• But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating,…
• Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational…
• It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself…
• Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in…
• A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land…
• Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism…
• A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious…
• I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.
• Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we…
• Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the…
• The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who…
• For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such…
• Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless…
• My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

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