{"quotes":[{"text":"It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time.The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. 'Make thyself happy' is his basic law. It his response to the 'Know thyself' at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","ernst-jünger","happiness","politics","self-knowledge"],"id":25768,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and on the ground like leaves in May and November; and I have done so as a contemporary and not just as a historian. The May Day celebration will survive, but with a different meaning. New portraits will head up the processions. A date devoted to the Great Mother is re-profaned. A pair of lovers in the wood pays more homage to it. I mean the forest as something undivided, where every tree is still a liberty tree.For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool’s motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","anarchism","anarchist","ernst jünger","freedom","politics"],"id":34855,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"The forest fleer has been expelled from society, the anarch has expelled society from himself. He is and remains his own master in all circumstances. When he decides to flee to the forest, his decision is less an issue of justice and conscience for him than a traffic accident. He changes camouflage; of course, his alien status is more obvious in the forest flight, thereby making it the weaker form, though perhaps indispensable.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","ernst-jünger","forest-flight","freedom","society"],"id":60886,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which “basically” everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","anarchy","ernst-jünger","freedom"],"id":90082,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, self-discipline is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch. He, too, can kill anyone (this is deeply immured in the crypt of his consciousness) and, above all, extinguish himself if he finds himself inadequate.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","caesarism","ernst-jünger","self-discipline","suicide"],"id":90126,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","ity","beliefs","ernst-jünger"],"id":99210,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","ernst-jünger","law","security"],"id":101502,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"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 an anarch, I am determined to go along with nothing, ultimately take nothing seriously – at least not nihilistically, but rather as a border guard in no man’s land, who sharpens his eyes and ears between the tides.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","anarchy","ernst-jünger","history","nihilism","time"],"id":102434,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","chivalry","ernst-jünger","martyrdom","patriotism","self-distancing"],"id":113646,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"},{"text":"I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.","author":"Ernst Jünger","tags":["anarch","ernst-jünger","freedom","society"],"id":114243,"author_id":"Ernst+J%C3%BCnger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}