“I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”
— Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
I dreamt of a twilight illumined by a thousand suns. High and low, great and small, all were taken and released. The great achieved bliss, the meek inherited the earth.
The golden-haired returned and smote the savage once again, and so turned the wheel of the Yuga.
"War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface."
— George Orwell, "The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become.”
― Bhagavad Gita
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
― Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Developing the ability to control your anger is an essential skill for all men. There absolutely nothing masculine about losing your tempering and raging out of control.
I commute a lot for work. I quite often want to engage in vehicular combat with some of my fellow citizens, but I will never let my anger lead to my own death or hurting a stranger for no reason.
Nor do I allow it change to me as a father when I walk in the front door. I do everything within my power to change my mindset coming home. My family deserves better. Your kids didn’t cut you off in traffic. They’ve just missed you all day.
"I inform you, Spaniards, that this state of red-faced faggots and perverts that is leading to the total destruction of this country is going to end."
— Franco
My catharsis?
Doing a 5 mile junk run on a dirt road in the countryside, at 0400, with your platoon. In the twilight, the moon alone illumines the path forward and back. An endless expanse of meadows. The fog hangs low. Clear sky. The clunk of metal and boot soles packing the dirt below us.
Seeing the muscles of your boys spasming under the exertion of 30lb ammo cans in each arm, rippling like contorting snakes just under the cover of sweat-soaked cammies. Steam, rising from one's head, like a sign from the Gods.
I wish I could go back.
*That* is what is most beautiful to me.
"Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too."
— Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel (1968)
"The noble soul is defined by its relentless pursuit of greatness, undeterred by the shadows of despair that loom in its path."
Читать полностью…When Pinkos say:
"Its freedom of speech not freedom from consequences" it always makes me laugh because it reminds me of a favorite proverb coined by Idi Amin "They have freedom of speech but not freedom after speech."
These bugmen want you and yours dead. Remember that.
"One must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation"
Nietzsche
Il était midi. Au même instant, à Bicêtre, Rivière, qui venait d'entendre lecture de sa grâce, soupira amèrement et dit au conseiller Réal : « Ce matin, la place d'honneur, c'est la place de Grève… ».
Anne Bernet
"For the Greeks, aristocracy was first of all a mode of government based on the rule of the nobles and the most competent.
For Aristotle, aristocracy and democracy did not oppose, but complete and integrate one another according to the complementary logic of apparent opposites.
The idea of hereditary aristocracies is a constant in human societies...even in certain Communist regimes (North Korea), where hereditary power is practiced by a caste of pseudo-aristocratic parvenus, the apparatchiks.
The notion of hereditary aristocracy should be treated carefully, for it can lead to sclerosis. A true aristocracy is founded not on the power of money, nepotism, or family filiations, but rather on character and ethics.
Those who defend their people before their own interests, those who respond to real anthropological and cultural criteria: this is the criteria for defining aristocrats.
An aristocracy has a sense of history and blood lineage, seeing itself as the representative of the people it serves, rather than as a member of a caste or club.
Today every traditional European aristocratic family, without exception, has been wiped out or turned into an object of mediacratic manipulation.
To recreate a new aristocracy: this is the work of every true revolutionary project.
What are the qualities of a true aristocrat?
Attachment to one’s people, who are served with courage, impartiality, modesty, creativity, taste, simplicity, and stature."
Guillaume Faye
“The security of a position depends less on the elaborate construction of its approach routes and the depths of the firing trench than on the freshness and undiminished courage of the men defending it.”
— Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel
“In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.”
— Pessoa
🔥🔥🔥 Carlyle quote that even Carlyle-stans have definitely not read, where he takes a dump on Marxist ideas about "material conditions" driving everything:
Man is heaven-born; not the thrall of Circumstances, of Necessity, but the victorious subduer thereof: behold how he can become the 'Announcer of himself and of his Freedom'; and is ever what the Thinker has named him, 'the Messias of Nature’”—Yes, Reader, all this that thou hast so often heard about ‘force of circumstances,’ 'the creature of the time,' 'balancing of motives,’ and who knows what melancholy stuff to the like purport, wherein thou, as in a nightmare Dream, sittest paralysed, and hast no force left,—was in very truth, if Johnson and waking men are to be credited, little other than a hag-ridden vision of death-sleep: some half-fact, more fatal at times than a whole falsehood. Shake it off; awake; up and be doing, even as it is given thee
“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
— Epictetus
‘Will to Power’ does not mean simply the ‘Romantic’ yearning and quest for Power by those who have no Power; rather, ‘Will to Power’ means the accruing of Power by Power for its own Overpowering.
Читать полностью…"Writing is thinking in slow motion. We see what at normal speeds escapes us, can rerun the reel at will to look for errors, erase, interpolate, and rethink. Most thoughts are a light rain, fall upon the ground, and dry up. Occasionally they become a stream that runs a short distance before it disappears. Writing stands an incomparably better chance of getting somewhere."
— Walter Kaufmann
"There's always going to be a left and a right, no matter what you call them. There's going to be the organized minority in power, and everyone else.
We might as well call one of those groups "the left" and one of those groups "the right." The reds and the blues. The whigs and the tories. The moonbats and the wingnuts.
What they stand for and what they want is going to change over time, but the common theme is that the leftists privilege what is sick, deformed, broken, and common over what is healthy, beautiful, whole, and exceptional.
The left is in power because the sick, deformed, and broken greatly outnumber the healthy, beautiful, and whole."