noblethumos

“That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Jules Michelet.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Whoever cannot believe and yet longs for it, whoever knows how miserable the Enlightenment is and yet cannot get rid of it, also knows what hell is. To be banished knowingly into unbelief.”
― Oswald Spengler

“The terrible consequence of “equality”― finally, everyone believes he has a right to every problem. All order of rank has vanished.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every new day is the erasing of something more. Mistakes and shortcomings used to be a secret motivation. It was something that pushed you forward, faster. Now mistakes are sold as personality traits, to the point where the many willingly make them. Soon comes the inversion, where successes are kept under wraps because it's too pretentious or uppity to share them”
― Mike Ma, Gothic Violence