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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.

— 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.

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)

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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.

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

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