“I had always been man enough to ruin myself without help.” Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees The Glass Bees (1957) Help
“Man's relation to pain changes with every significant shift in fundamental belief. This relation is in no way set; rather, it eludes our knowledge, and yet is the best benchmark by which to discern a race.” Ernst Jünger On Pain (1934) Pain , Knowledge , Way , Change
“When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country – and the time will come – then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.” Ernst Jünger book Storm of Steel Storm of Steel (1920) Life , Faith , Time , Dead