"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; I serve as a temporary volunteer."
The question is only where one draws the line between what is ultimately "my business" and "none of my business" (as Max Stirner, one of Jünger's models in Eumeswil for the figure of the anarch, might have put it.)
More Jünger quotes available on my site: ernst-juenger.org
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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This man was a true and faithful hero.
We are all driving towards death.
This bis also the stance of the mystic
The question is only where one draws the line between what is ultimately "my business" and "none of my business" (as Max Stirner, one of Jünger's models in Eumeswil for the figure of the anarch, might have put it.)
More Jünger quotes available on my site: ernst-juenger.org
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