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As only God has an absolute value, everything that is not God can have only relative value. To be created means that one’s being is not due to onesel… - Alain de Benoist
" "As only God has an absolute value, everything that is not God can have only relative value. To be created means that one’s being is not due to oneself but to something other than oneself. This creates a perpetual sense of self-loss within one’s own state of unfulfillment. It means that one is not self-sufficient but a dependent being—one’s state of existence is caged from the start inside that dependency. Creation therefore does not posit man’s autonomy. It circumscribes it, and by virtue of this, in my opinion, invalidates it. Indeed, man has no right to enjoy this world except on condition of acknowledging that he is not its true owner but at best its steward. Yahweh alone is the owner of the world. “The earth belongs to me, and you are nothing but strangers and guests to my eyes” (Leviticus 25:23).
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About Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist (born 11 December 1943), also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and multiple dozen other pen names, is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite (France's New Right), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.
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Fabrice Laroche
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Martial Laurent
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Cédric de Gentissard
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Tanguy Gallien
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Frédéric Laurent
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Robert de Herte
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David Barney
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Pierre Dolabella
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Maxime Meyer
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Jean-Pierre Dujardin
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Frédéric Toulouze
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Jean-Louis Cartry
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Pierre Jacob
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Julien Valserre
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Pierre Carlet
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Jean-Pierre Hébert
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Maiastra
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Gilles Foumier
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Mortimer Davidson
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Fabrice Valclérieux
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Éric Saint-Léger
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Éric Lecendreux
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Éric Dumesnil
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Walter Aubrig
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Bastien O'Danieli
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G. Foumier
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Mortimer G. Davidson
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Alain Marie de Benoist
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In paganism, on the contrary, good cannot be separated from beauty, and this is normal, because the good is form, the consummate forms of worldly things. Consequently, art cannot be separated from religion. Art is sacred. Not only can the gods be represented, but art is how they can be represented, and insofar as men perpetually assure them of representation, they have a full status of existence. All European spirituality is based on representation as mediation between the visible and the invisible, on representation by means of depicted figures and signs exchanged against a meaning intimately tied to the real, the very guarantee of this incessant and mutual conversion of the sign and meaning. Beauty is the visible sign of what is good, ugliness the visible sign of not only what is deformed or spoiled but bad.
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