Julius Evola Quotes

“According to traditional man the physical plane merely contains effects; nothing takes place in this world that did not originate first in the next world or in the invisible dimension.”

“As soon as the sacred character of a law is acknowledged and its origins in a non-human tradition, then its authority becomes absolute; This law becomes too sacred to mention, rigid, steadfast and beyond all criticism.

Thus every violation of this law is not regarded as a crime against society, but more as a sacrilege or an act of impiety, or as an act endangering the spiritual destiny of the person who disobeyed as well as the people with whom that person was related.”

“At the origin of every true civilization there lies a 'divine' event (every great civilization has its own myth concerning divine founders): thus, no human or naturalistic factor can fully account for it.

The adulteration and decline of civilizations is caused by an event of the same order, though it acts in the opposite, degenerative sense.”

“Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that.

Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.”

“It is necessary to have 'watchers' at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and firm ways, as the anti-traditional forces grow in strength. Even though these values cannot be achieved, it does not mean that they amount to mere 'ideas'. These are measures.

Let people of our time talk about these things with condescension as if they were anachronistic and anti-historical; we know that this is an alibi for their defeat. Let us leave modern men to their 'truths' and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.”

“No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress.”

“Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.”

“One thing becomes very clear; if the Empire declines and if it continues to exist only nominally, its antagonist, the Church, after enjoying untrammeled freedom from its ancient foe, did not know how to assume its legacy, and demonstrated its inability to organize the Western world according to the Guelph ideal.

What replaced the Empire was not the Church at the head of a reinvigorated 'Christendom', but the multiplicity of national states that were increasingly intolerant of any higher principle of authority.”

“The best and most authentic reaction against feminism and against every other female aberration should not be aimed at women as such, but at men instead. It should not be expected of women that they return to what they really are and thus reestablish the necessary inner and outer conditions for a reintegration of a superior race, when men themselves retain only the semblance of true virility.”

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

“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead become extinct; otherwise what takes place is racial mixing with other elements in which no assimilation or real evolution occurs.

The result of this interbreeding closely resembles Mendel’s laws concerning heredity: once it disappears in the phenotype, the primitive element survives in the form of a separated, latent heredity that is capable of cropping up in sporadic apparitions, even though it is always endowed with a character of heterogeneity in regard to the superior type.”