Art Quote by Ernst Junger

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

“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

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

— Ernst Jünger

“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

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

— Ernst Jünger

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

— Ernst Junger

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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