To a Friend of Light
'If thou wouldst not let eye nor sense grow weak,
Then chase the sun—even in shadows bleak.»
'If thou wouldst not let eye nor sense grow weak,
Then chase the sun—even in shadows bleak.»
"In this state one enriches everything out of one’s own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever one wills, is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power — until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is — art. Even everything that he is not yet, becomes for him an occasion of joy in himself; in art man enjoys himself as perfection."
The perfection of a work of art depends on the degree of obedience of its diverse elements to their proper hierarchy.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
Nicolas Gomez Davila
Wrath Of Gnon
#Krier #reactionary #architecture
"Modernist architecture is also truly globalist as it is all the same, all over the world: riveted glass boxes, obtuse shapes, clinical straight lines. These hapless architects all believe they are being new and groundbreaking but this ‘style’ has been unchanged since the middle of the last century."
Aeternum
"Their thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the…
«I prefer to understand the rare human beings of an age as suddenly emerging late ghosts of past cultures and their powers—as atavisms of a people and its mores: that way one really can understand a little about them. Now they seem strange, rare, extraordinary; and whoever feels these powers in himself must nurse, defend, honor, and cultivate them against another world that resists them, until he becomes either a great human being or a mad and eccentric one—or perishes early. Formerly, these same qualities were common and therefore considered common —not distinguished. Perhaps they were demanded or presupposed; in any case, it was impossible to become great through them, if only because they involved no danger of madness or solitude. It is preeminently in the generations and castes that conserve a people that we encounter such recrudescences of old instincts, while such atavisms are improbable wherever races, habits, and valuations change too rapidly. For tempo is as significant for the development of peoples as it is in music: in our case, an andante of development is altogether necessary as the andante of a passionate and slow spirit; and that is after all the value of the spirit of conservative generations.»
NIETZSCHE
NIETZSCHE