Ernst Junger Quotes

Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.

Ernst Junger

Quotes to Explore

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton
- Critics
- Others
- Rather
I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

Quentin Tarantino
- Want
- Theater
- Direct
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo
- Fall
- Woman
- Grace
Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

Samantha Smith
- Earth
- Day
- Worry
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Paavo Nurmi
- Mind
- Being
- Muscle
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

Sam Kean
- Important
- Long
- Pretty