Ernst Jünger: Greatness

Ernst Jünger was German writer. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.
Ernst Jünger: 32   quotes 4   likes

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

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

Knowledge

“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.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

Money , World , Time , Art

“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.”

Ernst Jünger book Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel (1920)

Home , God , Pain , Time