Ferdinand Bardamu > Ferdinand 's Quotes

“At the centre of all these noble races we cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificent blond beast avidly prowling round for spoil and victory; this hidden centre needs release from time to time, the beast must out again, must return to the wild: - Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings - in this requirement they are all alike. It was the noble races which left the concept of 'barbarian' in their traces wherever they went; even their highest culture betrays the fact that they were conscious of this and indeed proud of it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has [built a society where] man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity within a conformist social conglomerate”
― Julius Evola

“Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.”
― Francis Parker Yockey, Imperium: Philosophy of History & Politics

“The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”
― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

“No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress.”
― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

“Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed....”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”
― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

“The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would not have listened to me and, if he had, would not have understood what I said. He was like someone whom I had known once, but he was no part of me.”
― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.”
― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“All in all, nothing human is worth taking very seriously; nevertheless”
― Rob Doyle, Threshold

“The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.”
― Julius Evola

“An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“To recreate a new aristocracy is the eternal task of every revolutionary project.”
― Guillaume Faye, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“In what will survive me
I am in harmony
with my annihilation.”
― Georges Bataille

“Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.”
― Nick Land

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Reality is the perfect enemy: it always fights back, it can never be defeated, and infinite energy can be expended in unsuccessfully resisting it.”
― Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die ?”
― Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

“Time is a human affliction; not a human invention but a prison”
― Ccru, Ccru: Writings 1997-2003

“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.”
― Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil