“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, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.”
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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 that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.”
― Revolt Against the Modern World
― Revolt Against the Modern World
“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 taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.”
― Revolt Against the Modern World
― Revolt Against the Modern World
“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
“There is a superior unity of all those who despite all, fight in different parts of the world the same battle, lead the same revolt, and are the bearers of the same intangible Tradition. These forces appear to be scattered and isolated in the world, and yet are inexorably connected by a common essence that is meant to preserve the absolute ideal of the Imperium and to work for its return.”
― Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist
― Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist
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