“The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Law and custom are becoming the subjects of a new field of learning. The anarch endeavors to judge them ethnographically, historically, and… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The anarch is (I am simplifying) on the side of gold: it fascinates him, like everything that eludes society. Gold has its… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I begin with the respect that the anarch shows towards the rules. Respectare as an intensive of respicere means: ‘to look back,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he remains free of being… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The forest rebel and the partisan are not, as I have said, to be confused with each other; the partisan fights in… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Dalin must have whiffed the anarch in me, a man with no ties to state or society. Still, he was unable to… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“A basic theme for the anarch is how man, left to his own devices, can defy superior forces – whether state, society,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“As I have said, I have nothing to do with the partisans. As an anarch, I wish to defy society not in… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Religio", as we know, harks back to a word (re-ligio) meaning "bond" and that is precisely what the anarch rejects. He does… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
“Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s prospect. As… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.” — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“It is not that I as an anarch reject authority à tout prix. On the other contrary, I seek it, and that is precisely… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror. — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“I begin with the respect that the anarch shows towards the rules. Respectare as an intensive of respicere means: ‘to look back, to think… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is one of… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the extent that… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
