Why should we suppose there are “laws of physics”? Does physics account for the totality of reality? Is a scientific law anything other than a clever creation of the human mind? Continue reading
The nature of error is not to know itself as error, whereas the nature of truth is to posit itself as consciousness of truth, while knowing at the same time error as error. Julius Evola, from Pagan Imperialism
The primary causal agent is always an idea become person, with a will that pursues determinate ends—a cognizant will that has a program to realize a concrete thought, effective in history. … The few, in so far as they were the conscience and the will of an epoch, were the … Continue reading
It is not only the case that we reject the putative dualism between matter and spirit, we annul the antithesis in the synthesis of the spirit. Only the spirit exists, nothing else, not you, not this room, not the things and the objects that pass before us in the fantastic … Continue reading
Thales the Milesian held that self-knowledge is the beginning of every virtue … The man who knows himself knows that he is a rational, spiritual being, possessing the power of free choice and self-control, and hence religious, social, ethical, and in his spiritual nature, immortal. ~ St. Nectarios, Metropolitan of … Continue reading
To believe in the equality of all men, when we see them all unequal; to believe in liberty, when we see slavery established in all parts; to believe that all men are brothers, when history tells all are enemies; to believe that there is a common mass of misfortunes and … Continue reading
The universality of sin necessitates the universality of purification, which in its turn requires pain to be universal, that the whole human race may be purified in its mysterious waters. This explains why all men born suffer from their birth to their death. Pain is the inseparable companion of life in this obscure valley, filled with our sighs, deafened with our lamentations, and moistened with our tears. Every man is a suffering being, and everything not painful is strange to him. Continue reading
Death is certain, the time and manner is not. ~ Buddha In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche wrote: The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living….The highest interest of life, of ascending life, demands the most ruthless suppression and sequestration … Continue reading
As a psychologist, Nietzsche looked within and recognized the Will as the “Will to Power”, as the propensity to growth, creativity, expansion, strength, and so on as described in his analysis. Continue reading