Julius Evola famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential.
-- Julius Evola

#Real #Believe #Views
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.
-- Julius Evola

#Fall #Light #Order
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.
-- Julius Evola

#Citizens #Facts #Dignity
For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.
-- Julius Evola

#Past #Expression #Faithful
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
-- Julius Evola

#Prayer #Hero #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.
-- Julius Evola

#Men #Doe #Slave
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
-- Julius Evola

#Normal #Principles #Revolution
A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work,
-- Julius Evola

#Kings #Men #Land
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.
-- Julius Evola

#Ideas #Connections #Division
I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.
-- Julius Evola

#World #Lines #Ruins
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.
-- Julius Evola

#Military #Mistake #Believe
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').
-- Julius Evola

#Essence #Historical #Principles
The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a MÃ¤nnerbÃ¼nd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of their honor.
-- Julius Evola

#Loyalty #Men #Order
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.
-- Julius Evola

#Pain #Done #Pleasure
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.
-- Julius Evola

#Love #Existential #Blind
Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.
-- Julius Evola

#People #Soul #Unbiased
Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.
-- Julius Evola

#Becoming #Spirit #Force
But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.
-- Julius Evola

#Religious #Weakness #Prejudice
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing oneâ€™s being and in achieving oneâ€™s own perfection within the fixed parameters that oneâ€™s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to oneâ€™s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.
-- Julius Evola

#Self #Civilization #Perfection

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