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[Anonymous No.19445412]

Anyone have any books like this quote? I've been looking for books on this topic but I couldn't find much

[Anonymous No.19445416]

Guenon's Crisis of the Modern World and others, anything by Evola, Gasset, Eliade

>As today his surroundings do not so force him, the eternal mass-man, true to his character, ceases to appeal to any authority other than himself, and feels himself lord of his own existence. Conversely the select man, the excellent man is urged by interior necessity to appeal to some standard beyond himself, superior to himself, into whose service he freely enters. ... Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendent. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life.

>Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. "To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law" (Goethe). The privileges of nobility are not in their origin concessions or favours; on the contrary, they are conquests. And their maintenance supposes, in principle, that the privileged individual is capable of reconquering them, at any moment, if it were necessary, and if anyone were to dispute them. ... It is annoying to see the degeneration suffered in today's speech by a word so inspiring as "nobility." For, by coming to mean for many people hereditary "noble blood," it is changed into something similar to common rights, into a static, passive quality which is received and transmitted, something inert. But the strict sense, the etymon of the word nobility, is essentially dynamic. Noble means the "well known," that is, known by everyone, famous, he who has made himself known by excelling the anonymous mass.

>As one advances in life, one realises more and more that the majority of men — and of women — are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external compulsion. And for that reason, those few individuals we come across who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training. Training = askesis. These are the ascetics.

[Anonymous No.19445426]

>>19445416
Is there any English translation of that book in your picture?

[Anonymous No.19445428]

>>19445412

[Anonymous No.19445433]

>>19445426
Read German for Reading by Sandberg and hack through the book with a dictionary

https://archive.org/details/StellrechtHelmutGlaubenUndHandelnEinBekenntnisDerJungenNation194378S.ScanFraktur/page/n35/mode/2up

[Anonymous No.19445446]

Evola, Handbook for Right Wing Youth

[Anonymous No.19446091]

bump

[Anonymous No.19447006]

>>19445412
Growth of the soil by Hamsun (and it's kino)