Quotes from Julius Evola

The acceleration that characterizes all falling bodies causes the phase of individualism and rationalism to be overcome and to be followed by the emergence of irrational and elemental forces characterized by mystical overtones. It is here that we encounter further developments in the well-known process of regression. In the domain of culture this regression is accompanied by an upheaval that has been characterized with the expression "treason of the clerics.

and because I was still influenced at the time by Idealist and Nietzschcan views, which I combined with a Tantric perspective. I was even to criticise Guenon's book on Vedanta in writing (in the magazine Realistic Idealism [Idealismo realistico]). Guenon addressed my criticism, but, evidently, the two of us were speaking a different language. Only gradually did I come to appreciate the value of Guenon's work, which allowed me to more ad¬ equately put my own ideas into focus.

Gustav Meyrink. The latter is the author of novels which reflect esoteric knowledge in an exceptionally pure fashion (for this reason, I was later to translate three of Meyrink's novels: Walpurgis Night , The White Dominican and The Angel of the West Window - which I published for Bocca under a pseudonym)

In periods of decadence such as the present one, sensuality develops in the dissociated form of simple pleasure. As a result, sex becomes a kind of drug, and the addiction to it is no less profane than actual drug addiction

Un factor religioso es necesario como fondo para una verdadera concepción heroica de la vida: es necesario sentir en nosotros mismos la evidencia de que más allá de esta vida terrestre existe una vida más alta, ya que solamente quien siente de este modo posee una fuerza irrompible e indoblegable

Un artesano que desempeña perfectamente su función es indudablemente superior a un rey que se desvíe y no esté a la altura de su dignidad

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives. -Julius Evola, Orientations: Eleven Points

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives.

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest.

They fail to see the extent to which America is "negrified" not only racially and demographically, but above all in its civilization, in the behavior, and tastes of Americans, even when there has been no actual mixing with negro blood.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.