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“The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un texto implícito: Tomo II

tags: anti-modernist, culture, cultured, intolerance, reactionary, tolerance, traditionalist

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“It is a sign of regression when pleasure begins to be considered as the highest principle”
― Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

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“All great discoveries and inventions spring from the delight of strong men in victory. They are expressions of personality and not of the utilitarian thinking of the masses, who are merely spectators of the event, but must take its consequences whatever they may be.”
― Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

tags: science, technology, western-man

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“The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills... The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction. The past that he admires is not a goal but an exemplification of his dreams.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

tags: future, past, reactionary

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“Population growth disquiets the demographer only when he fears that it will impede economic progress or make it harder to feed the masses.
But that man needs solitude, that human proliferation produces cruel societies, that distance is required between men so that the spirit might breathe, does not interest him.
The quality of man does not matter to him.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

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