Julius Evola Zitate

„Weder Vergnügen noch Schmerz sollten als Motive dafür dienen, was getan werden muss.“

„Der gute Kämpfer tut, was zu tun ist, und lässt sich von keiner Skepsis beunruhigen. […] Angesichts der Unfähigkeit der bestehenden Fraktionen, die, wie allgemein bekannt ist, qualifizierte Personen oft gezwungen haben, sich von ihnen zu entfernen, und angesichts der Tatsache, dass das, was wünschenswert gewesen wäre, nicht eingetreten ist, d. h. politische Partei als bloße Manövrierkraft in der Gegenwart, aber absolut diszipliniert und kontrolliert von einer übergeordneten Gruppe, die Inhaber einer präzisen inneren Lehre ist, die im gemeinsamen politischen Kampf nicht vorgeführt werden darf - angesichts dieser Umstände scheinen mir die einzigen Möglichkeiten zu bestehen Es handelt sich um eher diffuse Akteure: Persönlichkeiten, die, wenn möglich, ein Kommandoposten bekleiden und mit direkten Kontakten beeinflussen, nicht so sehr in der Welt der politischen Intriganten als in der der Armee, der Behörden und der Wirtschaft.“

“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.”

“Worldview" is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed much more brightly, than in some other "intellectual" or scientist.”

“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”

“The United States represents the reductio ad absurdum of the negative and the most senile aspects of Western civilization. What in Europe exist in diluted form are magnified and concentrated in the United States whereby they are revealed as the symptoms of disintegration and cultural and human regression. The American mentality can only be interpreted as an example of regression, which shows itself in the mental atrophy towards all higher interests and incomprehension of higher sensibility. The American mind has limited horizons, one conscribed to everything which is immediate and simplistic, with the inevitable consequence that everything is made banal, basic and leveled down until it is deprived of all spiritual life. Life itself in American terms is entirely mechanistic. The sense of I in America belongs entirely to the physical level of existence. The typical American neither has spiritual dilemmas nor complications: he is a natural joiner and conformist.”

“The good fighter does "what has to be done" and does not let himself be troubled by any scepticism. […] Given the ineptitude of the existing political groups, which, as is well known, have often forced qualified elements to move away from them, and given that what would have been desirable did not occur, which is to say, a political party as a mere force of manoeuvre in the present time, but absolutely disciplined and controlled by a superordinated group, owner of a precise inner doctrine not to be paraded in the common political struggle—given these things, the only possibilities seem to me to be those of more diffuse activity : to win, and influence with direct contacts, personalities, if possible, holding a post of command, not so much in the world of the political schemers as in that of the army, of officialdom and of business.”

“As a social bond, now one does not find even a faith of the warrior kind, that is, relationships of loyalty and honour. The social bond assumes a utilitarian and economic character; it is an agreement based on convenience and material interest — a type only a merchant would accept.”

“The Americans' 'open-mindedness', which is sometimes cited in their favor, is the other side of their interior formlessness. The same goes for their 'individualism'. Individualism and personality are not the same: the one belongs to the formless world of quantity, the other to the world of quality and hierarchy. The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. The American 'mind', puerile and primitive, lacks characteristic form and is therefore open to every kind of standardization.”

“In a superior civilization, as, for example, that of the Indo-Aryans, the being who is without a characteristic form or caste (in the original meaning of the word), not even that of servant or shudra, would emerge as a pariah. In this respect America is a society of pariahs. There is a role for pariahs. It is to be subjected to beings whose form and internal laws are precisely defined. Instead the modern pariahs seek to become dominant themselves and to exercise their dominion over the entire world.”

“Christianity is at the root of the evil that has corrupted the West. This is the truth, and it does not admit uncertainty.”