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Bodies are mutually attracted by nearness, knowledge, and pleasure but souls by distance, mystery, and suffering.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn The Menace of the Herd (1943)

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The Romantic may be alone, but he is never lonely, and that because of his knowledge of the presence of God.

The Menace of the Herd (1943)

'Welfare State' is a misnomer, for every state must care for the common good.

The Timeless Christian (1969)

Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen.

Leftism Revisited (1990)

Generosity is a virtue more frequently found in the small top layers than among the masses. After all, it takes intelligence to suspect that generosity very often pays while egotism does not.

Monarchy and War (2000)

The feeling of inequality begins now to be a burning pain, snobism lifts its ugly head, the element of general human competition gains headway in every phase of life.

The Menace of the Herd (1943)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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