Study of Dante holding the hand of Love (for the painting ‘Dante’s Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice’) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
1855-1856.

“Help, if it comes, frequently turns up from an unexpected quarter: from the weak. This happened to me when I met and married Teresa. My defeatism reached a climax: I went the whole distance, finally turning my back on the struggle for power. It all seemed meaningless and futile, a wasted effort, time lost. I wanted to wipe it from my memory.

I came to recognize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.”

—Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees.

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
— Lord Byron

“If the industrious man, through taking action,
Does not succeed, he should not be blamed for that,
He still perceives the truth.”
—The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata (2,16).

https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/secret-wisdom/mercury-rising-the-life-writings-of-julius-evola

“Once I asked the muse, and she
Replied:
In the end you’ll find it.
Those born to die can’t grasp it.
About the highest mysteries, I’m speechless.
One’s true native land, like the laurel,
Is forbidden fruit, the last thing
We all taste.”
—Hölderlin, Once I asked the muse.

“When all institutions become disreputable, and when prayers are heard even in churches not for the persecuted but for the persecutors, moral responsibility passes into the hands of individuals, or, better said, the unbroken individuals.”— Ernst Jünger.

Eren Yeşilyurt interviews the Italian scholar Alessandra Colla about the sociological views of Jalal al-e Ahmad, the great Iranian writer who was influenced by Ernst Jünger and whose ideas about the return of Iranians to their own identity, free of Western influence, was to help pave the way for the revolution of 1978-79.
https://erenyesilyurt.com/index.php/2025/08/29/alessandra-colla-between-junger-and-ahmad-there-is-more-of-a-critical-convergence-than-an-intellectual-alliance-based-on-a-critique-of-modernity/

 "You must realize that I am far from feeling beaten…it seems to me that… a man ought to be deeply convinced that the source of his own moral force is in himself — his very energy and will, the iron coherence of ends and means — that he never falls into those vulgar, banal moods, pessimism and optimism. My own state of mind synthesises these two feelings and transcends them: my mind is pessimistic, but my will is optimistic. Whatever the situation, I imagine the worst that could happen in order to summon up all my reserves and will power to overcome every obstacle."
—Antonio Gramsci.