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The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.
Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)
Aristocracy is often mistaken for plutocracy.
Pagan Imperialism (1928)
My principles are only those that, before the French revolution, every well-born person considered healthy and normal.
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.
Civilta Americana (1945)
War makes one realise the relativity of human life and therefore also the law of a 'more-than-life', and thus war has always an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value.
Metaphysics of War (2007)
Christianity tore the spirit from this world; and worldly reality, rendered foreign, mute, lifeless, external, material — such reality became the object of Western science.
Pagan Imperialism (1928)
Immortality is the privilege of the few, and, according to the Aryan conception, specifically the privilege of heroes. Continuing to live – not as a shadow, but as a demigod – is reserved to those which a special spiritual action has elevated from the one nature to the other.
Metaphysics of War (2007)
Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.
Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest (1974)
Now we must say: enough; enough with Christianity in all its forms. The Latin race, especially, will firmly renounce any connection to this dark entity that contaminated it from the Jewish slums of Palestine.
Pagan Imperialism (1928)
Warrior spirit is characterised by direct, clear and loyal relations, based on fidelity and honour and a sound instinct for the various dignities, which it can well distinguish: it opposes everything which is impersonal and trivial.
Metaphysics of War (2007)
A political, economic, and social order created merely for the sake of temporal life is exclusively characteristic of the modern world, that is, of the antitraditional world.
Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)
In relation to the supernatural, we have said, two fundamental attitudes are possible: the solar, masculine, affirmative one, corresponding to the ideal of traditional sacred kingship, and the lunar, feminine, religious, passive one, corresponding to the sacerdotal ideal.
Pagan Imperialism (1928)
Danger reawakens the spirit.
Metaphysics of War (2007)
In dealing with relationships, not only man-to-man, but also State-to-State and race-to-race, it is necessary to be able to conceive again of that obedience which does not humiliate but exalts, that command or leadership which commits one to superiority and a precise responsibility.
Metaphysics of War (2007)
Love for distance and order, the ability to subordinate one's individualistic and passionate element to principles, the ability to take action and work above mere personhood, a feeling of dignity devoid of vanity are features of the true warrior spirit as essential as those which refer to actual combat.
Metaphysics of War (2007)
We cannot ask ourselves whether ‘woman’ is superior or inferior to ‘man’ any more than we can ask ourselves whether water is superior or inferior to fire. There can be no doubt that a woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.
Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex (1958)
In reality, chivalry was animated by the impulse toward a ‘traditional’ restoration in the highest sense of the word, with the silent or explicit overcoming of the Christian religious spirit.
Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)
All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideas that have been stored in one’s head. Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.
Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest (1974)
As a social bond, now one does not find even a faith of the warrior kind, that is, relationships of loyalty and honour. The social bond assumes a utilitarian and economic character; it is an agreement based on convenience and material interest — a type only a merchant would accept.
Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist (1953)
The best and most authentic reaction against feminism and against every other female aberration should not be aimed at women as such, but at men instead. It should not be expected of women that they return to what they really are and thus reestablish the necessary inner and outer conditions for a reintegration of a superior race, when men themselves retain only the semblance of true virility.
Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)