When a nation kills a monarch, they kill what is highest in themselves. Without command and obedience to a sublime principle you are lost within. Every monarchy which falls gives way to a Republic of Cain. How can a god exist in a polity ruled by base instincts?
“Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death.”
— Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality
— Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“Modern man has abolished symbolism, and with it, he has abolished meaning.”
Joseph de Maistre, Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg
Joseph de Maistre, Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg
"Good discipline, practiced in training, avails more than rage in attaining victory."
— Sallust
— Sallust
“Great men maintain a high standard of things: they help restore self-respect.”
— Burckhardt
— Burckhardt
There is a back and forth relation between work and morale. Not only does morale make soldiers work and fight, working and fighting keep up their morale.
— “Psychology For The Fighting Man”
— “Psychology For The Fighting Man”
“It is a noble thing for a brave man to die, fallen among the foremost fighters, battling for his Patria.”
— Callinus of Ephesus
— Callinus of Ephesus
Forwarded from Feline Age Tyrant
Homer's greatness rests in his refusal to demand moral allegiance. His world is untouched by the moral sermonizing of modern stories. In his verses, men are stirred by valor and the longing for excellence, pursuing the faint glimmer of immortality.
Fight for the fight itself. Nothing else matters; not the outcome, but the action itself.
"Everything in the state advanced in such a way that to every citizen the Patria was dearer than his own life."
— Sallust
— Sallust