Conversations among men should be conducted like those among gods, among invulnerable beings. To duel with ideas is to use swords of the intellect that cut through matter without pain or effort. The deeper the cut, the purer the enjoyment. In such intellectual encounters, one must be indestructible.

— ernst junger, journals of a german officer.

"Only those who secretly propagate the admiration of beauty conspire effectively against today’s world.” ~Nicolás Gómez Dávila IMPERIVM

"If we want something to endure, we strive for beauty, not for efficiency." Nicolas Gomez Davila

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"Asceticism and Puritanism are almost indispensable means of educating and ennobling a race which seeks to rise above it's hereditary baseness and work itself upwards to future supremacy."

*Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed
To form the angelic butterfly, that goes
To judgment, leaving all defence behind?
Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,
Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean
As worm which never transformation knows?

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio*

*Even if one had been born in prison and had never seen the stars or seas or woods, one would instinctively know of timeless freedom in unlimited space.

Ernst Jünger*

*“A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of  the dead.”

Nicolás Gómez Dávila*