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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.

— Julius Evola Metaphysics of War (2007)

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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.

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The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.

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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.

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