Ernst Junger

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

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

— Ernst Jünger

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

— Ernst Jünger

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

— 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

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

— 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

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

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but…

— Ernst Junger

“The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling…

— Ernst Jünger

“Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be…

— Ernst Jünger

“The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault,…

— Ernst Jünger

The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself…

— Ernst Junger

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it.…

— Ernst Junger

“A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should…

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

— Ernst Jünger

“Throughout the war, it was always my endeavour to view my opponent without animus, and to form an opinion of him as…

— Ernst Jünger

“Now these [battles] too are over, and already we see once more in the dim light of the future the tumult of…

— 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

“How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and…

— 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

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

— Ernst Jünger

“I begin with the respect that the anarch shows towards the rules. Respectare as an intensive of respicere means: ‘to look back,…

— 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

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

— 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 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

“A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he…

— Ernst Jünger

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but…

— Ernst Junger

“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