## Metadata * Author: [[Ernst Jünger]] * ASIN: B07CX3ZPLC * ISBN: 0231127405 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CX3ZPLC ## Highlights Wandervogel — location: [101](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=101) ^ref-58530 --- The war was won by one side, he intoned, but the peace must be won by all. — location: [291](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=291) ^ref-17867 --- Sophie Ravoux, — location: [332](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=332) ^ref-24446 --- Umm El-Banine, — location: [333](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=333) ^ref-46347 --- Cities are feminine and only smile on the victor,” — location: [436](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=436) ^ref-519 --- Patrouix is a Catalan born in Perpignan. We discussed his language. He told me that of all living tongues, it is closest to Latin. — location: [1086](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1086) ^ref-57625 --- in order to grow old, we have to stay young. — location: [1088](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1088) ^ref-31411 --- Such entertainments are like a bath that washes off the dirt of duty; there is freedom in it. — location: [1107](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1107) ^ref-52667 --- paterfamilias, — location: [1116](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1116) ^ref-30611 --- Time resembles a hot object whose temperature cannot be reduced but can be endured for longer and longer periods by shifting it from one hand to the other. — location: [1125](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1125) ^ref-5096 --- Laon again with its cathedral, which I love especially. — location: [1188](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1188) ^ref-5161 --- This is the final collecting point for things that have spent their dreamy lives for years, decades, and centuries among families and households. They pour out of the rooms, the attics, and the storage rooms and bring anonymous memories with them. They fill the whole market with the emanations of household gods. — location: [1250](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1250) ^ref-6027 --- Thomas Mann, Ein Tag aus dem Leben des alten Goethe [A Day in the Life of the Aged Goethe] — location: [1273](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1273) ^ref-34236 --- Malraux, whose career I have followed ever since I got my hands on his novel La Condition Humaine [The Human Condition — location: [1276](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1276) ^ref-24441 --- It is impossible to be bored out in the sunlight. There we bathe in the fountain of time. — location: [1282](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1282) ^ref-33304 --- Flaubert’s Ėducation Sentimentale [Sentimental Education, 1869]. — location: [1317](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1317) ^ref-642 --- Fromentin, is a bourgeois Des Esseintes. — location: [1379](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1379) ^ref-59637 --- In every age, there are two theories of evolution. One of these seeks our origin above, and the other, below. Both are true; human beings may be categorized based on whether they accept one or the other. — location: [1428](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1428) ^ref-36933 --- We may demand of people no more than what is commensurate with their essence; from women love, not justice. — location: [1470](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1470) ^ref-56406 --- Béarnaise — location: [1482](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1482) ^ref-38325 --- In such centuries-old houses, time itself is still part of the continuing construction process. — location: [1509](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1509) ^ref-9707 --- She also mentioned a doctor who took pictures of the dying so as to capture and study the agonies produced by various illnesses—a thought that I found both astute and repugnant. For some minds, taboos no longer exist. — location: [1517](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1517) ^ref-6903 --- Chypre. — location: [1523](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1523) ^ref-39867 --- sometimes spend my noon hour in the little cemetery near the Trocadéro. — location: [1538](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1538) ^ref-55468 --- Fumée d’Opium by Boissière, — location: [1544](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1544) ^ref-4577 --- The soul creates levels for our passage to death. — location: [1591](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1591) ^ref-60960 --- They resemble machines of iron that follow a single path until they are finally dismantled. — location: [1613](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1613) ^ref-24307 --- It is remarkable when such minds speak about the sciences, such as biology. They apply them the way Stone Age man did, transforming them only into a means to slay others. — location: [1614](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1614) ^ref-63495 --- People with such natures could be recognized earlier, in eras when faith could still be tested. Nowadays they hide under the cloak of ideas. These are quite arbitrary, as seen in the fact that when certain goals are achieved, they are discarded like rags. — location: [1620](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1620) ^ref-28334 --- Confession by Kanne. — location: [1747](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1747) ^ref-9108 --- an unspoken self-selection. — location: [1756](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1756) ^ref-15959 --- gave the signal for candid conversation. — location: [1757](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1757) ^ref-25860 --- deathwatch beetle — location: [1811](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1811) ^ref-54196 --- the damage Burckhardt caused with his Renaissance,34 especially those Nietzschean impulses that spread among the educated class. These were intensified by theories from natural science. It is strange how pure speculation can be transformed into will, into passionate action. — location: [1847](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=1847) ^ref-10092 --- Style is essentially based on justice. Only the just man can know how he must weigh each word, each sentence. For this reason, we never see the best writers serving a bad cause. — location: [2029](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2029) ^ref-47654 --- 8 Rue de Castiglione — location: [2157](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2157) ^ref-25926 --- The rivalry between Saul and David gives us the pattern for every conflict between youthful strength and legitimate power. There is no negotiation here. — location: [2210](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2210) ^ref-21526 --- The goal of life is to gain an idea of what life is. — location: [2234](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2234) ^ref-47837 --- James Riley, Le Naufrage du Brigantin Américain Le Commerce [Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig “Commerce,” 1817], published by Le Normant (Paris, 1818). — location: [2426](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2426) ^ref-48848 --- That is the basic difference between free men and slaves. By freedom, most people mean new forms of slavery. — location: [2530](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2530) ^ref-43081 --- High Wind in Jamaica, — location: [2550](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2550) ^ref-26754 --- students had recently been arrested for wearing yellow stars with different mottoes, such as “idealist,” and then walking along the Champs-Ėlysées as a demonstration. Such individuals do not yet realize that the time for discussion is past. They also attribute a sense of humor to their adversary. In so doing, they are like children who wave flags while swimming in shark-infested waters: they draw attention to themselves. — location: [2562](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2562) ^ref-39107 --- As past and future intersect in the narrow neck of the hourglass, — location: [2660](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2660) ^ref-37903 --- empty applause of youth, — location: [2912](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2912) ^ref-42029 --- Tallemant des Réaux. I am reading his Historiettes [Brief Histories] right now, and I find they surpass Saint-Simon’s history when it comes to meaty substance. They give a kind of social zoology. — location: [2961](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2961) ^ref-47308 --- A city like this has its animal element, like a coral reef. — location: [2975](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=2975) ^ref-56038 --- Human beings are privileged in not knowing the future. That is one of the diamonds in our diadem of free will. If we were to lose it, we would become automatons in a world of machines. — location: [3002](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3002) ^ref-61004 --- [hyacinth bean] — location: [3021](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3021) ^ref-12491 --- Technology has now been so profoundly implemented that even after the domination of the technicians and their major premises has been broken, we are going to have to deal with its remnants. — location: [3042](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3042) ^ref-32243 --- Nonetheless, free men know each other and are recognizable by a new nimbus that suffuses them. — location: [3046](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3046) ^ref-24735 --- Perhaps we are talking only about small groups that preserve freedom, probably among its victims, yet the spiritual gain compensates for its losses many times over. — location: [3046](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3046) ^ref-57753 --- the influence of the soil diminishes when population numbers rise and there is a shift to the large cities. — location: [3069](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3069) ^ref-52875 --- Then, a discussion of American values, which will be further promoted by the obliteration of our old cities. — location: [3196](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3196) ^ref-48341 --- piety is only imaginable between wonderful beings. — location: [3255](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3255) ^ref-59147 --- The animals express their praise through their behavior and their magnificent coloration, — location: [3256](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3256) ^ref-55800 --- I believe that in such moments, the unimaginably concentrated essence inherent in familiar images is revealed to us. — location: [3276](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3276) ^ref-53287 --- the irresistible attraction of alcohol is not caused by physical enjoyment, but by its mystical power. It is thus not depravity that leads the unfortunate man to it, but rather hunger for spiritual power. Drink gives the poor and uneducated what others derive from music and libraries: it provides them with enhanced reality. — location: [3310](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3310) ^ref-23570 --- Lac des Minimes — location: [3364](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3364) ^ref-23715 --- nationalization of injustice. — location: [3451](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3451) ^ref-27248 --- La Porte des Humbles by Léon Bloy. — location: [3536](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3536) ^ref-57700 --- The true appeal of journals is not their strange or extraordinary content. Much more challenging is the description of simple daily routines, — location: [3538](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3538) ^ref-54803 --- Emperor Kang-hsi — location: [3644](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3644) ^ref-43826 --- This too is one of the stepping-stones to Americanism; in place of our old haunts, we shall have cities that are the brainchildren of engineers. But perhaps only herds of sheep will graze upon the ruins, as in those old pictures of the Roman Forum. — location: [3762](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3762) ^ref-56965 --- Reached Stalino6 at nine o’clock, and after another hour we were in Rostov. — location: [3938](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3938) ^ref-37102 --- The eye has to grow accustomed to the most unpleasant sights imaginable—there is no oasis, no respite. Technology is the only thing that functions in good order: the railroad, the cars, the airplanes, loudspeakers, and naturally everything belonging to the world of weaponry. — location: [3960](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=3960) ^ref-16292 --- To clear the estate for the Plague Institute, these patients were exterminated by the Security Service. Such an act betrays the tendency of the technician to substitute hygiene for morality, similar to the way he substitutes propaganda for truth. — location: [4131](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=4131) ^ref-29483 --- Even freedom must pass through the pain. It must be earned again.” — location: [4221](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=4221) ^ref-11434 --- The widespread prognosis of an infinite continuation derives essentially from a lack of imagination. It occurs to people who see no way out. — location: [4758](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=4758) ^ref-59723 --- At midnight, through the noise of the carousers, I vividly recalled my loves and felt their greetings touch me. — location: [4777](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=4777) ^ref-28374 --- Clausewitz would be turning in his grave. — location: [4816](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=4816) ^ref-24945 --- Keeping a journal: The short entries are often as dry as instant tea. Writing them down is like pouring hot water over them to release their aroma. — location: [4853](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=4853) ^ref-10738 --- Teberda Valley — location: [4883](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=4883) ^ref-20873 --- In a state of inebriation or euphoria, the mind advances more adventurously and more spontaneously. It experiences things in the realm of infinity. — location: [5066](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5066) ^ref-51195 --- Copernican literature. — location: [5088](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5088) ^ref-6585 --- The oversized and plantlike nature of these defenses can reach branchlike proportions, as in the case of stags and many insects that live on wood. Even the shedding of antlers has a vegetable quality to it. — location: [5107](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5107) ^ref-4758 --- That can be seen wherever realism reaches a climax. The final brushstrokes then add unreal touches. — location: [5131](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5131) ^ref-22424 --- When people with minds like this hear reports from the other side about such crimes, a trace of demonic joy rather than horror flickers across their faces. The defamation of one’s enemy is a cult among the courtiers in the realm of darkness. — location: [5150](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5150) ^ref-59909 --- In his last years, he stopped painting and turned to drink. There will always be artists who outlive their calling; — location: [5155](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5155) ^ref-55670 --- Dusk transforms individuals into figures, removes personal details from people, and turns them into general impressions — location: [5167](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5167) ^ref-52651 --- The true measure of our worth is other people’s growth in response to the power of our love. — location: [5193](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5193) ^ref-28615 --- There is a kind of dying that is worse than death; it happens when a beloved person obliterates the image of us that lived inside him. We are extinguished in that person. — location: [5196](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5196) ^ref-63174 --- according to Clausewitz, war is the continuation of politics by other means, — location: [5205](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5205) ^ref-53627 --- Schwärmen: heightened vibrancy of life, communal gathering, and recurrence. — location: [5223](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5223) ^ref-29961 --- In earlier times, the rhythm of Schwärmen was surely primeval, determined by the influence of the moon and the sun upon the earth and its vegetation. When we sit beneath large trees in full bloom and filled with the buzzing of bees, we receive the wonderful sensation of what Schwärmen means. Times of day, such as twilight and moments when electrically charged air precedes the storm can be important here as well. These natural-cosmic signs are the substrate beneath ever-changing historical periods—they remain as the facts of the ceremonies whose significance seems to change with rituals and cultures. — location: [5226](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5226) ^ref-8134 --- tear vials — location: [5243](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5243) ^ref-28910 --- While playing this game, you might not glimpse the absolute superiority of a person’s mind, but you do encounter a special form of it. — location: [5291](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5291) ^ref-48375 --- If all buildings were to be destroyed, language would remain intact as an enchanted castle with towers and turrets and ancient vaults and passageways that nobody will ever completely explore. — location: [5351](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5351) ^ref-19855 --- I conversed with him about topography and found him to be of the opinion that it is not worthwhile to travel far, since we always encounter the same formations wherever we go—just a few different patterns that are the basis for everything. — location: [5404](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5404) ^ref-37447 --- “Have the salt of peace within you, or you shall be cured with salt of another kind.” — location: [5462](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5462) ^ref-8668 --- sickness often begins as a moral disorder — location: [5495](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5495) ^ref-6258 --- If the patient does not show himself willing to be healed at this moral stage, the physician must refuse treatment; he would only be taking a fee he had not earned. — location: [5496](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5496) ^ref-56179 --- Hannibal and Philipp of Macedon signed their famous treaty, — location: [5627](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5627) ^ref-35854 --- Through study you can liberate yourself from the influence of bad teachers and from the prejudices of your age. — location: [5706](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5706) ^ref-53313 --- again broke off one of the fresh leaves from the fig tree growing by the Church of the Assumption. This tree’s annual budding has given me joy for three years now. It is among my favorite trees in this city. The second is the old pollarded acacia in the garden of the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Perhaps the third addition is the Paulownia in Banine’s garden. PARIS — location: [5801](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5801) ^ref-22148 --- Diseases must naturally increase. The most important hormone is the one that cannot be identified. — location: [5931](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=5931) ^ref-31433 --- the death of the wise man is only illusory. — location: [6028](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6028) ^ref-6063 --- style. The use of the noun is in all instances stronger than verbal forms. “They sat down to eat” is weaker than “They sat down at the table,” or “they sat down to the meal.” “He regrets what was done” is weaker than “he regrets the deed.” This is the difference between movement and concreteness. — location: [6037](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6037) ^ref-19168 --- “j’aime les gens distraits; c’est une marque qu’ils ont des idées” [I like inattentive people; it is a sign that they have ideas]. — location: [6094](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6094) ^ref-26236 --- American billionaire is not a bad review. — location: [6101](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6101) ^ref-49678 --- After the banker Oppenheim had purchased the White Roses by van Gogh, he stared at this picture for two hours before going to the meeting where he acquired a majority of stocks in the National Bank—which turned out to be his best business transaction. — location: [6150](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6150) ^ref-13118 --- Viewed this way, the ownership of paintings also possesses a power both magical and real. — location: [6151](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6151) ^ref-64513 --- By extension, if there were no weeds, but merely fruit alone, that would spell the end of horticulture. — location: [6213](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6213) ^ref-36547 --- am now experiencing the friendship of fifty-year-olds as a source of good-natured productivity. — location: [6254](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6254) ^ref-20143 --- Faulkner’s Pylon, a book I am rereading after many years because it describes the abstract hell of the world of technology with such precision. — location: [6338](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6338) ^ref-23156 --- Our words are stones we throw, and we cannot know whom they may hit behind that wall of years. — location: [6410](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6410) ^ref-35131 --- Without being threatened himself, an officer guns down several Russian prisoners and at the hearing explains the deed by declaring that his brother had been murdered by partisans. He is sentenced to two years in prison. When the verdict is presented to Kniébolo, he countermands it and orders the officer acquitted with the justification that, when fighting beasts, it is impossible to keep a cool head. — location: [6504](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6504) ^ref-64466 --- Danger loses its appeal in bad company. — location: [6561](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6561) ^ref-54347 --- We hold the power to create patterns within us, — location: [6641](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6641) ^ref-881 --- “either-or” but rather of “not only, but also.” — location: [6659](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6659) ^ref-11661 --- French lack this puritanical urge to improve others, — location: [6766](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6766) ^ref-37041 --- The city center was demolished: the Opera House, the Leine Castle, the Market Church with most of the narrow old streets and their Renaissance and baroque houses—all were destroyed. — location: [6863](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6863) ^ref-5040 --- cities are dreams. — location: [6866](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=6866) ^ref-57257 --- the proclivity to begin working again on old pictures, even if he had sold them long ago. — location: [7159](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7159) ^ref-44098 --- Guignot’s beautiful volume on the water beetles of France. — location: [7190](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7190) ^ref-64370 --- The art of getting along with people lies in keeping the same pleasant middle distance over the course of time without becoming estranged, without becoming close, and without a change of quality. — location: [7211](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7211) ^ref-19504 --- equilibrium depends on repetition, not change. — location: [7213](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7213) ^ref-8301 --- This is so in the most pleasant relationships, marriages, and friendships. — location: [7214](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7214) ^ref-5532 --- Nowadays, good style presupposes a background in the natural sciences, as it once did theology. — location: [7227](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7227) ^ref-56129 --- human economy forces us to exploit life, — location: [7399](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7399) ^ref-17663 --- Septuagint — location: [7426](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7426) ^ref-38984 --- auto-da-fé — location: [7457](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7457) ^ref-61358 --- The monks, whose task it was to affix the seals, had to be illiterate—fratres barbati—so as to preserve secrecy. — location: [7490](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7490) ^ref-1367 --- Erdmannsdörffer’s Mirabeau, one of the best historical character studies I have ever come across. — location: [7687](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7687) ^ref-60146 --- the finest change that the mind can experience in its autumnal years: the inclination toward simplicity. — location: [7689](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7689) ^ref-16373 --- transcendent power—to earn interest from time — location: [7823](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7823) ^ref-1593 --- the evolution of the wine up to that moment when it is drunk and transformed into spirit, provides us with a powerful symbol of life. — location: [7825](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7825) ^ref-54575 --- I would not recognize the mental state of twenty- to thirty-year-old people, who believe only what the newspapers print because they have never learned anything else. — location: [7860](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=7860) ^ref-64986 --- Kniébolo’s speeches are like bankruptcy hearings; in order to stall for time, the insolvent person promises to pay his creditors fantastic profits. — location: [8126](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8126) ^ref-48660 --- One Thousand and One Nights. — location: [8151](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8151) ^ref-4962 --- Conversation about perfumes and how they are made. In order to concoct a scent for a client, the specialists in the large perfume houses do not inquire about hair color, but rather they request a piece of underwear that she has worn. — location: [8548](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8548) ^ref-8534 --- Among his sentences I find, “C’est l’amour des femmes qui forme le charactère de l’homme” [It is the love of women that forms a man’s character]. Correct, yet they shape us as the sculptor his marble: by removing parts of us. — location: [8555](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8555) ^ref-46159 --- [It is — location: [8556](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8556) ^ref-43830 --- A relationship to order is critical here—the anarchist lacks this, but it defines the nihilist. This makes nihilism more difficult to discern; it is better disguised. A good indicator is the bond to the father: the anarchist hates him, while the nihilist despises him. — location: [8566](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8566) ^ref-21996 --- What is the link between symmetrical and asymmetrical design in creatures, — location: [8640](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8640) ^ref-41719 --- Doctor Besançon does so in his book Les Jours de l’Homme — location: [8649](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8649) ^ref-2114 --- “We digest with our legs.” — location: [8663](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8663) ^ref-46800 --- America is conquering the places of ancient culture— — location: [8825](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8825) ^ref-63048 --- mankind capable of metaphysical bonding. — location: [8912](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8912) ^ref-44577 --- Michelangelo’s correspondence with his father. Supposedly it contains important advice about health and how to lead one’s life. — location: [8947](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8947) ^ref-45330 --- Books in name only, but actually just psychological machines to manipulate people. The reader enters a chamber and gets a dose of cosmic radiation. After reading the book, he becomes someone else. — location: [8957](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=8957) ^ref-23996 --- We too are shadows cast by our own body. One day it will emerge. — location: [9007](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9007) ^ref-8153 --- Tibetans avoid it when they construct their buildings for fear of attracting demons. — location: [9016](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9016) ^ref-24502 --- We can only wish that the words “above reproach” might be added to their unassailable motto, “without fear.” The second has value only in conjunction with the first. — location: [9120](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9120) ^ref-1626 --- Jean Charet, the polar explorer: “above the polar circle there are no Frenchmen, no Germans, or Englishmen anymore—there are only men.” The yearning for the north and south poles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is analogous to the search for the philosopher’s stone: They are magical sites, endpoints that create a planetary consciousness. They are also seminal poles, fructified by the eyes of their discoverers. The nations of the Old World are changed by these new dimensions. The polar circle is the absolute state where no differentiated energies can exist except the primal force. — location: [9482](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9482) ^ref-18408 --- The emerald wasp Chrysis against a gray wall—its iridescent, silky green thorax and garish raspberry-red abdomen. A tiny creature like this seems to collect the rays of the sun like the focal point of a magnifying glass. It lives cloaked in finely woven embers. — location: [9570](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9570) ^ref-7588 --- The author attributes to the Egyptians a tendency to asymmetry and cites their preference for heads in profile as evidence. — location: [9612](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9612) ^ref-11273 --- The need for symmetry is apparently a subordinate trait. — location: [9613](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9613) ^ref-20018 --- These are just reports from workers to other workers. — location: [9639](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9639) ^ref-59707 --- Discussed the situation, particularly about General von Seidlitz, and then about the way Prussians have been victimized by the Party. — location: [9702](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9702) ^ref-51209 --- The complete lack of judgment shown by the masses as they permit themselves to be deceived into a state of euphoria remains remarkable. — location: [9789](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9789) ^ref-43284 --- In the army, the so-called German salute has been introduced as a sign that they have lost the contest. — location: [9879](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9879) ^ref-35916 --- My way back takes me along Rue de Varenne, where as usual I am enchanted by the tall entryways typical of the old palaces of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. They were built to permit wagons piled high with hay access to the stables. — location: [9900](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9900) ^ref-21246 --- Stood outside the portal of Sacré Coeur to cast a last glance over the great city. I watched the stones quiver in the hot sun, as if in expectation of new historical embraces. Cities are feminine and only smile on the victor. — location: [9930](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=9930) ^ref-24051 --- These are birthdays in a higher sense, stages of maturation and not mere aging. — location: [10045](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10045) ^ref-56273 --- primitive person follows the maxim, “anything my group does is good,” — location: [10052](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10052) ^ref-45610 --- He reported that Drieu La Rochelle had shot himself in Paris. It seems to be a law that people who support intercultural friendship out of noble motives must fall, while the crass profiteers get away with everything. — location: [10095](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10095) ^ref-62772 --- “No matter how many you may kill, your successors will not be among them.” — location: [10108](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10108) ^ref-40062 --- L’Ile de Ceylan et ses Curiosités Naturelles [The Island of Ceylon and Its Natural Curiosities] by Octave Sachot (Paris, 1863). — location: [10117](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10117) ^ref-49829 --- Our Fatherland is like a poor man whose just cause has been usurped by a crooked lawyer. — location: [10124](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10124) ^ref-64045 --- bog rosemary. — location: [10212](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10212) ^ref-5884 --- Whenever I receive death announcements, I consistently notice that a kind of emotion grips me and I feel astonished disbelief. It is as though the departed had passed a difficult examination and achieved something I had not believed him capable of. — location: [10278](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10278) ^ref-14600 --- I read Goethe’s [comedy] Die Mitschuldigen [Partners in Crime, 1787]. The work skillfully captures the milieu of a small inn, — location: [10430](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10430) ^ref-13267 --- I wonder whether the propensity for establishing total states corresponds to musicality. In any case, it’s obvious that three musical nations in particular have emerged: the Germans, Russians, and Italians. Within musicality, a shift to the coarser elements probably occurs—a shift from melody to rhythm. This development culminates in monotony. — location: [10484](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10484) ^ref-55277 --- Books are shavings, detritus of existence. — location: [10732](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10732) ^ref-64467 --- Dreams are froth—from eternity. — location: [10824](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10824) ^ref-2704 --- In order to produce historical reality and productivity, we need to hit the target intentionally, not by accident. — location: [10854](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10854) ^ref-22150 --- Les Naufragés (1870) [Wrecked on a Reef (1874)]. — location: [10861](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10861) ^ref-12007 --- We also talked about an obsolete drug, lactuacarium, that derives from the thickened sap of wild lettuce. — location: [10878](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10878) ^ref-2982 --- “The basic character of ritual acts does not derive from the fact that those who first performed them wished to invoke something they yearned for, but from the fact that they already possessed what they yearned for: nearness to their God.” — location: [10948](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=10948) ^ref-19610 --- All around, the air was heavy with the scent of red cedars, cypresses, trees of life, firs, and other conifers, whose branches and foliage had been shorn off and crushed by the shrapnel.” — location: [11399](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=11399) ^ref-15571 --- When a March evening arrives after one of the first warm days, an amazingly pungent vapor rises from the plowed furrows that were fertilized a few weeks earlier. Its elements comprise highly concentrated animal fumes underscored by decay and combined with pulsing fecundity from the ferment of life in its legions of microbes. This is a smell in which melancholy and high spirits merge—enough to make you go weak in the knees. — location: [11508](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=11508) ^ref-12618 --- Here, I got to know a person who combines obtuse intelligence with brutality, as is so common in our world. The characters of those types who influence broad historical events are composed of the following ingredients: one quarter each of technical intelligence, stupidity, bonhomie, and brutality—that that is the mixture one must know in order to comprehend the contradictions of our age. — location: [11638](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=11638) ^ref-62623 --- In the afternoon, violent explosions in the area; there were immense black clouds around Winsen an der Aller. By contrast it’s very pleasant that around here the pressure that came along with the twelve years of Party rule—pressure that I could feel even during the campaign in France—has gone up in smoke. — location: [11698](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07CX3ZPLC&location=11698) ^ref-3073 ---