Lithuania’s School of Thought

“A nation’s calling is not only to survive but to bring the light of its spirit to the world, and this demands sacrifice from everyone who claims to be part of it. Sacrifice is not merely suffering or loss; it is a conscious giving of oneself to something that transcends personal boundaries—the nation’s mission, its culture, its truth. One who sacrifices their time, talents, or even life for this purpose becomes a pillar of the nation’s spirit, for only through such devotion does a nation gain the dimension of eternity.”

"The nation is strong only when all its members subordinate their interests to a common goal. The state is above individual classes, and only it can unite them. We see how chaos arises elsewhere in the world from discord between classes—in Lithuania, this cannot be. The state must be like a family, where each member works not for themselves but for the good of the whole, and the government is its guarantor."

"Modern civilization is empty, because it worships only itself and rejects God’s presence, which only gives meaning. Man, having-rejected transcendence, becomes only thing among things, and his freedom turns illusion, because he no-longer-knows, who he is and why he-lives. Western world, priding-itself its science, forgot, that truth is-not only that, which can be-measured."

“Human being is hierarchical: some people stand higher, others lower, and this is not merely a matter of social or economic power, but an ontological condition arising from human nature itself. The modern world, striving to equalize everything and everyone, destroys this hierarchy, but in doing so, it also destroys the very essence of the human, because a human without distinction, without heights and depths, becomes merely an empty shell, possessing neither depth nor meaning. Aristocracy, as a state of the spirit, and not merely an expression of lineage or wealth, is what keeps a human human, what allows him to strive for transcendence through his relationship with the thing and the world

"We, Lithuanians, are a nation that often bases its identity on what we are not, rather than what we are. Russia has become that ‘other’ whom we blame for everything, but this blame only masks our own emptiness. We hate not so much Russia as our own powerlessness, which it reminds us of."

"A civilization state is neither a frozen form, as Western rationalists believe, nor a purely material construct, as the Bolsheviks assert. The path of the Lithuanian nation is dialectical – between past and future, between spirit and body, between nation and world. Philosophically, it is a constant becoming, where the nation creates itself not as an isolated unit but as a living organism that opens to universal truths while preserving its roots. This synthesis of opposites is our strength against Western vanity or Eastern tyranny."

"Culture is man’s spirit’s vitality, which reveals-itself through creation, but civilization – this only its technical tool, which, losing spiritual foundation, turns into mechanical skeleton, not-having vitality. Spengler, speaking about West’s sunset, sees only this collapse, but not-sees, that spirit can revive even from ruins, if man preserves faith and will."

“The true aim of philosophy is not to produce discursive accounts but rather to rekindle the ever-present inner spark of the divine within us and to raise the soul to the noetic cosmos either by the theurgic ‘ropes’ of worship (analogous to the rays of the sun), or by means of contemplation and dialectical ascent.”

"Lithuania must be a bridge between East and West, not their battlefield. Its future depends not only on the strength of our nation but also on our ability to maintain our independence when surrounded by raging great powers. Russia seeks to swallow us in the embrace of its empire, Germany wants to see us as an obedient servant, but we must choose a third path – the path of freedom, which relies on our history and culture. Only in this way can we remain a nation and not become merely a memory in the chronicles of other states."

"Liberalism speaks of freedom, but what freedom is this? It is the freedom of a ghost, a disembodied self that drifts through a world stripped of roots, of weight, of meaning. The liberal man is a stranger to himself, a merchant of his own soul, trading the bonds of kin and soil for the thin air of rights and contracts. This is not liberation but a deeper enslavement—to the market, to the illusion of choice, to the endless chatter of a culture that knows no silence. In its promise of universality, liberalism erases the particular, the unique, the irreplaceable, leaving behind a smooth, featureless plain where all identities dissolve into the same gray dust."