To the profound comprehension of this law of the intellectual generation of ideas, are due the marvels of Catholic civilisation. To that wonderful civilisation is due all that we admire and all that we see. Its theologians, even considered humanly, put to the blush modern and ancient philosophers; her doctors … Continue reading
Roots of Western Civilisation
Among the many would-be “saviours” of Western civilisation, there are precious few who know exactly what they are supposed to preserve. For example, many prefer the values of the Enlightenment and praise scientific discovery; while that may be, in a restricted sense, one of the flowers, it is hardly the … Continue reading
Free Will and the Laws of Physics
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
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 Absurdity of Socialism
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
Life is the Absence of Sleep
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
Life’s a Bitch, but she’s my bitch so I love her
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
Nietzsche on the Will
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