‘Politics can organize society. It cannot permanently provide identity. The so-called political communities seek agreement. Genuine communities shape character.’

‘The unique tragedy and potential greatness of the objective psyche of the Hungarian man lies in the fact that while most European peoples only need to synthesize two or three archetypes, all five geniuses are present in the Hungarian soul. The task of destiny is unavoidable: “To be Hungarian means nothing less than to create balance in the world of the five geniuses.”’

‘But the central question is no longer simply what AI can do for civilization. The more unsettling question concerns the kind of civilization that emerges once permanent connectivity, behavioural modelling, and technological mediation become its organizing principles.’

‘The only reasonable course is moderate (conservative) progress: gradual reform that seeks improvement while preserving society’s proven institutional and cultural frameworks and taking account of social complexity and local knowledge. Traditionalism—the uncritical preservation of the status quo—is no real alternative either.’

‘Ferdinandy…did more than almost anyone else among Hungarian historians to experience and depict history not as a series of data or a mass of economic and social facts, but as a living, organic drama of fate.’

‘Antifa is “proudly illiberal” and rejects the liberal principles of freedom of speech, opinion, and assembly. From a revolutionary perspective, a legalistic approach to rights is not worthy of respect, since, in Antifa’s view, rights are not “inalienable”. For antifascists, the wellbeing of marginalized groups takes precedence over abstract liberal rights.’

‘According to Joó—whom we can still consider one of the most significant theoreticians of the Hungarian national idea and intellectual history (Geistesgeschichte)—the nation is constituted not by blood, tribe, or race, but by the spirit, and this spirit can only be addressed through the method of intellectual history.’

‘The negatively signed evaluation of the East–West dichotomy in Prohászka is…the legacy of 18th–19th-century Western European thought—the French/Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism. The turning point was brought about mostly by the Enlightenment…and the fetishization of technical progress. It was from this point onwards that the East became “lazy” and “backward” in the eyes of Western man.’

Beyond the ‘official’ Geistesgeschichte, national self-examination and ‘fate science’ reached psychological and even ontological depths among radical, philosophically inclined intellectual historians. Key works of the era emerged at the intersection of depth psychology, the cultural morphology of Spranger and Keyserling, and literature, seeking to define the Hungarian Volksgeist.

‘The task of developing a new theoretical framework for political realism through the lens of moderate metaphysical realism remains unfinished. Far from being a purely abstract endeavour, the aim is for this project to have a profound impact on real-world politics. Its theoretical refinement should serve as the foundation for a strong and committed praxis of Christian integralism.’

Only one leper returned to give thanks to Jesus. Likewise, at Easter we may take a little time to reflect on the things of God, and then rush back onto our own paths. Yet the cost of the resurrection was unbearably high—he who easily passes by this sacrifice is a prodigal son.

‘Roger Scruton does not place his faith in cosmopolitanism, but rather in the conviction that the path toward humanity leads through the nation. His critique is by no means directed against openness, but against oikophobia. At the same time, it is important to emphasize that he is not advocating nationalism.’

‘Only in these ways will we be able to recreate an elite that shows us how a life with books should be lived and, in doing so, once again transmits to future generations the cultural heritage that Gómez spent his life studying.’

‘Creators depict aristocratic power primarily as a pragmatic, Machiavellian struggle; the problem with this is not that it is unrealistic, but that it is exclusive.’

‘Despite denominational, political, or ideological divisions, and despite the hyper-pluralism evident in the public sphere, at the level of mental habitus, patterns of thought, and underlying assumptions, there exists in Hungarian society a fundamental unity derived from cultural Christianity…A similar unity exists across most Western societies—linking Hungary to them through this common cultural Christian foundation.’

‘Europe has forgotten that it is not discourse but song that shapes humanity; not a tweet but a Kyrie; not opinion but melody bowing to the depth of heritage. In Zagreb and Sinj, a people sang, and in their voices was the memory of a continent that once knew how to bind freedom to form, identity to responsibility, hope to sacrifice.’

‘Behind historical changes, there simply must exist an “invisible constant” that ensures continuity despite biological-physical changes—and sometimes even despite a change in language. This can be called a metaphysical character: a deep spiritual structure independent of time, space, and biology, which ensures the continuity of the national fate amidst the changing sceneries of history.’

‘All enemies of Europe are enemies of freedom. Standing up for the preservation of European freedom and defending it in solidarity against enemies from without and within is therefore probably the most important task of conservative politics in and for Europe at present.’

‘This genuine, organic conception of evolution stands in full harmony with a spiritually grounded understanding of the universe. Just as society unfolds its latent traditions, and a seed unfolds the tree inherent within it, so the entire created world unfolds from the infinite possibilities of the Principle.’

‘Time is in fact the hero of the plot…Given so much time, the “impossible” becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles.’

‘Modern natural science started from the seemingly noble self-limitation of seeking answers to the question of how the world works, leaving the great questions of why to philosophy and theology. As we can see, this was Darwin’s original objective as well. But did the British naturalist remain faithful to this promise?’

‘Unveiling the “religion of electricity” uncovers a narrative embedded in modernity which challenges reductive secularization theories, especially Max Weber’s classic portrayal. The “religion of electricity” embodies both the scientification of religion and the re-enchantment of the world, offering intriguing anomalies to explore.’

‘The American Republic in the first half of the 19th century gradually drifted away from the Founders’ original vision and embarked on the path of modern mass democracy. The final result of this, paradoxically, became exactly what the Founders had feared…The Jacksonian rejection of the principle of hierarchy led not to the fulfilment of freedom, but to the rise of a new, faceless form of tyranny.’

‘School, therefore, never ends: the modern citizen is the subject of re-education from the cradle to the grave, stripped of the past so that he may obediently march toward the technological utopia.’

‘De Maistre was not a practitioner of political anthropology, but rather its instructive forerunner. As such, his writings may provide extremely important and useful contributions to its expansion and reinterpretation.’

‘Learning, the moral and intellectual basis of human life, must be readapted and reopened to the world of value and inspiration. Education must once again become Bildung.’

‘…without intellectual and political leaders who are able and daring enough to go beyond the surface-level symptoms of the infocracy, our capacity to reform society and adapt to a post-infocratic world becomes increasingly limited. It would be like fighting the weather: we might cool our houses with air conditioning, but we cannot stop the heat from entering in the first place.’

‘The so-called “populist wave” is not the enemy of democracy; it is the symptom of liberal democracy’s philosophical exhaustion.’

‘The conservative commitment to national sovereignty and democratic accountability ensures that governance remains responsive to the citizens it serves, rather than distant ideological or bureaucratic elites. This maintains a critical check on the imposition of one-size-fits-all moral doctrines, preserving cultural diversity, civic participation, and democratic legitimacy.’

‘Since the masses are easily manipulated, democracy is the natural breeding ground for demagogues, and a straight path leads from it to totalitarianism.’