Ernst Junger

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

— Ernst Junger

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

— Ernst Junger

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

— Ernst Junger

“Obitus vitae otium est (Death is life's rest).”

— Ernst Jünger

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

— Ernst Junger

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

— Ernst Jünger

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

— Ernst Junger

“It is not that I as an anarch reject authority à tout prix. On the other contrary, I seek it, and that…

— Ernst Jünger

“The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also…

— Ernst Jünger

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.

— Ernst Junger

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This…

— Ernst Junger

It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy…

— Ernst Junger

For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage.…

— Ernst Junger

“The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to…

— Ernst Jünger

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a…

— Ernst Junger

“A basic theme for the anarch is how man, left to his own devices, can defy superior forces – whether state, society,…

— Ernst Jünger

“Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s…

— Ernst Jünger

Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades.…

— Ernst Junger

“I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no…

— Ernst Jünger

“I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and…

— Ernst Jünger

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he…

— Ernst Junger

Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are…

— Ernst Junger

“It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be…

— Ernst Jünger

“Freedom of the press’ and ‘capital punishment' – I usually give these phrases a wide berth at the family table, for were…

— Ernst Jünger

“At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is…

— Ernst Jünger

“If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the…

— Ernst Jünger

“As I have said, I have nothing to do with the partisans. As an anarch, I wish to defy society not in…

— Ernst Jünger

“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is…

— Ernst Jünger

“The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a…

— Ernst Jünger

“The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the…

— Ernst Jünger

“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The…

— Ernst Jünger

“For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and…

— Ernst Jünger

“My unlucky star had destined me to be born when there was much talk about morality and, at the same time, more…

— Ernst Jünger

“No salvation comes from exhumed gods; we must penetrate deeper into substance. If I take a fossil, say, a trilobite, in my…

— Ernst Jünger

“The egalitarian mania of demagogues is even more dangerous than the brutality of men in gallooned coats. For the anarch, this remains…

— Ernst Jünger

“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case,…

— Ernst Jünger

“This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the…

— Ernst Jünger

“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the…

— Ernst Jünger

“One of the anarch’s emoluments is that he is distinguished for things that he has done on the side or that go…

— Ernst Jünger