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Ernst Jünger

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Ernst Jünger Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Ernst Jünger photo

Ernst Jünger

Birthname

Birthday: March 29, 1895

Death: February 17, 1998

Nationality: Germany

Occupations: Science Fiction Writer, Diarist, Journalist, Entomologist, Philosopher

Total quotes: 3

“The history of inventions also raises ever more clearly the question of whether a space of absolute comfort or a space of absolute danger is the final aim concealed in technology.”

— Ernst Jünger, On Danger

Tagged: Technology, Post-Enlightenment, Extreme Endpoints

“What sustains us, if not the mysterious ray of light which sometimes flashes through the inner wilderness? People wish to speak, however imperfectly, of that which to them is more than human.”

— Ernst Jünger, The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios

Tagged: Light, Mystery, Wilderness, Light Sustenance

“If we recognize the plant as an autonomous power which enters in order to put roots and flowers in us, then we distance ourselves by several degrees from the skewed perspective which imagines that spirit (Geist) is the monopoly of human beings and doesn't exist outside of them. A new world-picture has to follow the planetary leveling; that is the task which the next century will take up.”

— Ernst Jünger, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere

Tagged: Spirit, The Secret Lives of Plants

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