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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.

— Julius Evola Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)

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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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