Josephin Peladan Quotes & Sayings

Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing... — Josephin Peladan

He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust. — Josephin Peladan

There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the beauty of a world or of a dung heap; her destiny is never to be mediocre. — Josephin Peladan

Covering oneself, surrounding oneself with shapes and colors that correspond to a plan, mean that that plan is beginning to be realized. — Josephin Peladan

The absence of symbols in our life debases it as much as any government can... — Josephin Peladan