The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense,… — Ernst Junger 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
“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
“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.” — Ernst Jünger Copy Share
“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
The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror. — Ernst Junger Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share
“The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share
“The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share
