History Quote by Ernst Jünger Download Open image ““Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”” — Ernst Jünger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but… — Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
“Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about… — Randy S. Woodley Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa 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
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
