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“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures fulfil their Destinies.”
― The Decline of the West
― The Decline of the West
“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
“Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.”
― The Decline of the West
― The Decline of the West
“History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.”
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“To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed”
― The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
― The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
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