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Doctor Zhivago Unveiled
2021-11-21
Lara has to be the love of his life, with no other. Hence, he catches one final glimpse of her. We may hope that Lara is his Beatrice, the revelation of Sophia,…
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The Finger of Father Sergius
2014-11-21
The celibate path embraced by the monk frees him the strongest attachment to the world. As Nicolas Berdyaev puts it: Man is greatly dependent, sexually, on woman: he has a weakness for…
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The Acting Person
2011-11-21
The soul-body relation is intuitively given in the experience of man as a real being. In this respect the subordination of the system of integration of the human person to the transcendence…
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Spanish Falangism
2010-11-21
As spiritual reality, the state is organic and results from "cells": the family, the local community, and common business and professional associations. It is hierarchical and opposes any class conflict. Continue reading…
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Metaphysics and Philosophy

Posted on 2011-01-23 by Cologero

Because we write about topics such as being, religion, knowledge, history and the like — topics philosophers like to deal with — some readers of Gornahoor have the mistaken impression that we are also philosophers. Hence, they presume we are defending a particular philosophico-religious system, or trying to promote one; … Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre