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Complete works of Peter Paul Rubens
A pair of panoramic river landscapes with mountains, Johann Georg Schütz
“Myth is the means by which the traditional world expressed the ultimate significance of being.”
Julius Evola
Julius Evola
A noble man, according to the original Germanic tradition, and subsequently within the order of the medieval civilisations, was equivalent to a free man. The first Roman constitution is based on the idea of patres, priests, leaders and supreme judges of their peoples, which are free as so many worlds within a world. Frederick II will say: “I am king insofar as I am free”. These expressions are identical to those of liberalism, in their letter, but present a radical contrast, in their spirit. The difference lies in the fact that, in liberalism, these values are affirmed by a race of slaves, which does not dare to think them and to want them thoroughly, as applicable at the level of the individual, but instead shifts them, in an illegitimate, egalitarian way, to ‘society’ and ‘humanity’, where they lose their primitive signification and are transformed into mistakes. If we were to take it at its word, according to the first of its Immortal principles’, this race would have established the period of freedom. In reality, it is not so at all. It does not know what the word 'freedom’ means. If it did, it would also know that to want freedom, and to want the empire, are one and the same thing.
Metaphysics of Power
Metaphysics of Power
“There are two senses in which an artist may work to awaken wonder. One is the basest and vulgarist kind of art; the other is the highest and noblest kind of art. The former is meant to make us wonder at the artist; the latter is meant to make us wonder at the world.”
“Taste is not simply a set of arbitrary preferences. It is a complex exercise of sympathy, in which we respond to human life, enhanced and idealized in artistic form. Good taste is not reducible to rules; but we can define it instead through concept of virtue: it is the sum of those preferences that would emerge in a well ordered soul.”