Ernst Jünger: Cytaty po angielsku

Ernst Jünger był pisarz niemiecki. Cytaty po angielsku.
Ernst Jünger: 70 cytatów11 Polubień

“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 century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”

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Ernst Jünger książka The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“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 acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.”

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Ernst Jünger książka Eumeswil

Eumeswil (1977)

“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 can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.””

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Ernst Jünger książka Eumeswil

Eumeswil (1977)

“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.”

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Ernst Jünger książka Eumeswil

Eumeswil (1977)

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

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Ernst Jünger książka The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“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 by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.”

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Ernst Jünger książka The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“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 within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.”

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Ernst Jünger książka The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“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 more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.”

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Ernst Jünger książka The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

“Man's relation to pain changes with every significant shift in fundamental belief. This relation is in no way set; rather, it eludes our knowledge, and yet is the best benchmark by which to discern a race.”

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Ernst Jünger

On Pain (1934)

“When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country – and the time will come – then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.”

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Ernst Jünger książka Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel (1920)

“In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high.”

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Ernst Jünger książka Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel (1920)

“This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.”

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Ernst Jünger książka Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel (1920)

“Books and bullets have their own destinies”

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Ernst Jünger książka Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel (1920)
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