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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.

— Julius Evola Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)

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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)

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

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