Julius Evola Quotes
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
Evola, Julius. Revolt Against the Modern World. Translated by Guido Stucco, Inner Traditions, 1995, p. 136.
This proverb probably originated during the golden age of Islamic scholarship when the Muslim world preserved and advanced the philosophy and science of the West. Such a value would likely not be espoused today by most Muslim clerics and leaders. Some say that this change is precisely why Islam is deteriorating.
This would be like an American President firing the congressional chaplains. However this is only one small, but telling, example of Atatuk’s secularization of the nation which had a great deal to do with Turkey becoming a modern great power—by far the strongest and most developed of the Islamic world.
Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, better known as Julius Evola (/ˈdʒuljəs ɛˈvoʊlə/), was an Italian philosopher, painter, and esotericist. Evola regarded his perspectives and spiritual values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic and defiantly reactionary.