Category: Quotes
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In pain there is something fortifying, manly, and profound
Pain establishes a certain equality between all those who suffer, which is to establish it between all men, for all suffer: by pleasure we are separated, by pain united in fraternal bonds. Pain removes the superfluous, and gives us what we want, and establishes a most perfect equilibrium in man: the proud man does not…
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Toil, Pain, Death
Toil, pain, and death are the great auxiliaries that keep humanity from falling into the bottomless abyss of evil. Through toil, human beings are preserved from irresolute passivity; through pain, they are protected from the danger of excessive subjectivity, because through pain they are reminded of the surrounding world; and through death, they are rescued…
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Russian nihilists and monkeys
The Russian nihilists have a sort of syllogism of their own — man is descended from a monkey, consequently we shall love one another. ~ Vladimir Solovyov
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Manu: The kingdom will surely perish
From the laws of Manu.
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Pagan Philosophers and Church Fathers
The precise nature and even, in some senses, the width of the chasm which separated the [Pagan and Christian] religions can easily be mistaken if we take our ideas solely from political or ecclesiastical histories: still more, if we take them from more popular sources. Cultured people on both sides had had the same education,…
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Woman is the bearer of the sex-element
Woman is the bearer of the sex-element in this world. In man sex is more differentiated and specialized: in woman it is diffused through the whole tissue of the organism, through the whole structure of the soul. In man sexual attraction demands more immediate satisfaction than in woman, but he is more independent of sex…
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Scientific Clarity and Assurance
What our fathers did through custom and feeling, we ourselves pursue it through reason and will, with the assurance and clarity of science.
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To Become a Man
To become a man at once is impossible. One has to mould oneself into a man. Here discipline is required. But it is precisely this relentless self-discipline that our present-day thinkers reject. Now it is in the relentless self-discipline and uninterrupted work on one’s self that our citizen could reveal himself. ~ Dostoievsky, from Diary…
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The Nature of Error
The nature of error is not to know itself as error, whereas the nature of truth is to posit itself as consciousness of truth, while knowing at the same time error as error. Julius Evola, from Pagan Imperialism
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The Primary Causal Agent
The primary causal agent is always an idea become person, with a will that pursues determinate ends—a cognizant will that has a program to realize a concrete thought, effective in history. … The few, in so far as they were the conscience and the will of an epoch, were the agents of history. They recognized…