War as an Inner Experience Quotes
War as an Inner Experience
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Ernst Jünger436 ratings, 4.22 average rating, 67 reviews
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“These are the figures of steel whose eagle eyes dart between whirling propellers to pierce the cloud; who dare the hellish crossing through fields of roaring craters, gripped in the chaos of tank engines ... men relentlessly saturated with the spirit of battle, men whose urgent wanting discharges itself in a single concentrated and determined release of energy.
As I watch them noiselessly slicing alleyways into barbed wire, digging steps to storm outward, synchronizing luminous watches, finding the North by the stars, the recognition flashes: this is the new man. The pioneers of storm, the elect of central Europe. A whole new race, intelligent, strong, men of will ... supple predators straining with energy. They will be architects building on the ruined foundations of the world.”
― Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis
As I watch them noiselessly slicing alleyways into barbed wire, digging steps to storm outward, synchronizing luminous watches, finding the North by the stars, the recognition flashes: this is the new man. The pioneers of storm, the elect of central Europe. A whole new race, intelligent, strong, men of will ... supple predators straining with energy. They will be architects building on the ruined foundations of the world.”
― Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis
“Two feelings appear to us as the causes of this flood of sensual phenomena: the urge of life to express itself once more in an intensified way and the flight into the thicket of intoxication in order to forget the threatening dangers in pleasure.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
“Yes, the soldier in his relationship with death, in his personal commitment to an idea, knows very little about philosophers and their values. But in him and his deed, life expresses itself more poignantly and more deeply than any book could ever do.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
“The more one feels connected to life through muscle, heart and brain, the higher respect one feels for it. But sooner or later you realize that becoming is more important than life.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
“It is important to note that it is precisely the most vigorous life that sacrifices itself most willingly. It is better to go down like a bursting meteor than to go out trembling.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
“Всередині людини залишилося ще багато від звіра, який поки ще спить на зручному вʼязаному килимі цієї відшліфованої, обтесаної, стерильно переплетеної ци-вілізації, загорнутої у буденність та звичні форми, — та коли крива лінія життя відкидає людину назад до межі примітивного існування, усі маски спадають; людина знову стає голою первісною істотою, мешканцем печер, розгнузданим і вільним у своїх інстинктах.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
“Для людини, яка мислить, не так просто вбити когось. Чим більше відчуваєш себе повʼязаним із життям через серце, мʼязи та мозок, тим більше починаєш цінувати все живе. Але колись, рано чи пізно, розумієш, що становлення є чимось більшим за життя.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
“Суть не в тому, заради чого ми воюємо, а в тому, як ми це робимо.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
“Войовничість, готовність вступити в бій, нехай навіть за найдрібнішу ідею, — це важить більше, ніж будь-які міркування про добро і зло.”
― War as an Inner Experience
― War as an Inner Experience
