Sphinx

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

ALT “This world is the Will to Power—and nothing else! And even ye yourselves are this will to power—and nothing besides!” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values

ALT “The human head may indeed be regarded as representing wisdom, and the lion’s body strength; the head is the spiritual authority that directs, and the body the temporal power that acts.” René Guénon, Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power