Sphinx

ALT “Of many thousand mortals, one, perchance, Striveth for Truth; and of those few that strive— Nay, and rise high—one only—here and there— Knoweth Me, as I am, the very Truth.” Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita (The Song Celestial)

ALT “Material development and pure intellectuality truly lie in opposite directions; whoever sinks further into one necessarily moves away from the other.” René Guénon, East and West

ALT “Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody else’s equal, “At bottom we are all herd and mob.”” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values

ALT “The noble lives in a world of facts, the priest in one of truths; the one has shrewdness, the other knowledge; the one is a doer, the other a thinker.” Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West: Volume Two: Perspectives of World-History

ALT “What is called the Renaissance was in reality, as we have said on other occasions, the death of many things.” René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

ALT “Wherefore we must be bold to say, That an Earthly Man is a Mortal God, and That the Heavenly God is an Immortal Man.” Hermes Trismegistus, The Divine Pymander

ALT “What constitutes ‘pragmatism’ in all its forms is total indifference to truth.” René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

ALT “Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power thereto in his own hell.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

ALT “Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.” Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West: Volume Two: Perspectives of World-History

ALT “The traditional spirit cannot die, because in its essence it is superior to death and change; but it may withdraw entirely from the external world, and then there will truly be the ‘end of a world.’” René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

ALT “Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom

ALT “The supreme conqueror is not he who conquers a million men in battle, but he who conquers a single man: himself.” The Buddha, Khuddakanikāya: Dhammapada

ALT “This authority is like the pivot around which all contingent things turn, the fixed axis around which the world revolves, the pole or immutable center that directs and regulates cosmic movement without participating in it.” René Guénon, Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power

ALT “All good things were once bad things; from every original sin has grown an original virtue.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

ALT “An Estate has instincts, a party has a program, but a following has a master.” Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West: Volume Two: Perspectives of World-History