Lazarus Symposium

Nationalism is a defensive attitude, made necessary by the fragility of the State. - Jacques Bainville

National prophecy, as distinct from traditionalism, places its center of gravity upon the future. Traditionalism is a comfortable, noncommittal formula. It expresses solidarity with the nation, but not a will to give it a great meaning in the world. - Emil Cio…

Inscription on Immanuel Kant's grave in Königsberg, after the city was captured by Soviet troops. "Now do you understand that the world is material?"

"Of course, the wretched mass of our fellow citizens today will never understand this. They will merely laugh or shrug their hunched shoulders and proclaim their eternal excuse: “Yes, that would be all well and good, but it cannot be done!” Of course, nothing…

A national revolution, which wishes to return Romania to its ethnic original, would turn Romania away from modernity. By returning it to its sources, it becomes a historical zero again. The sustained fever of modernization, on all planes, is our only salvation…

We all die, but only a few of us attain the honor of dying for a doctrine. -Antoun Sadeeh

We could show that the same enterprise of Christopher Columbus had more relations than what is commonly known with the obscure ideas about a land where, according to some medieval legends, "never dead prophets", about a "transatlantic Elisha", would be found.…

The philosopher, as Olympiodorus says, seeks death, namely the separation of the soul from the body. This Alexandrian Neoplatonist claims that "preparation for death is not an end in itself... the real goal is being dead. For the same reason 'dying' is differe…