Ernst Junger Quotes

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• We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk…
• 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…
• The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his…
• The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand,…
• I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who…
• We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and glory.…
• The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file
• 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 political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch…
• Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
• Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]
• A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded…
• Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even…
• I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us…
• Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy…
• Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties…
• The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom;…
• The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not…
• 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 he…
• Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is…

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