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 e… - Ernst Jünger

This objection is not directed at the poet, who, in his works and in his life, manifests the vast superiority of the world of the muses over the technical world. He helps people find the way back to themselves—the poet is a forest rebel.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.