Der Schattige Wald

"It is only in an individualistically disintegrated society that the aesthetically productive subject could shift the intellectual center into itself, only in a bourgeois world that isolates the individual in the domain of the intellectual, makes the individual its own point of reference, and imposes upon it the entire burden that otherwise was hierarchically distributed among different functions in a social order. In this society, it is left to the private individual to be his own priest. But not only that. Because of the central significance and consistency of the religious, it is also left to him to be his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the private priesthood. If we consider the situation from aspects such as these, then we should not always focus only on the good-natured pastoralists. On the contrary, we must also see the despair that lies behind the romantic movement — regardless of whether this despair becomes lyrically enraptured with God and the world on a sweet, moonlit night, utters a lament as the world-weariness and the sickness of the century, pessimistically lacerates itself, or frenetically plunges into the abyss of instinct and life. We must see the three persons whose deformed visages penetrate the colorful romantic veil: Byron, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, the three high priests, and at the same time the three sacrificial victims, of this private priesthood."
- Carl Schmitt

“You believe yourselves to be innocent because you have not slit somebodyʼs throat, as yet, I want to believe; because you have not forced open somebodyʼs door nor scaled his wall in order to despoil him of his possessions; because finally you have not transgressed human laws too visibly. You are so gross, so carnal, for you do not conceive of a crime that cannot be seen. But I say to you, my very dear brother, that you are a plant, and that the assassin is your flower.”

"Aus den Gärten komm ich zu euch, ihr Söhne des Berges!
Aus den Gärten, da lebt die Natur geduldig und häuslich,
Pflegend und wieder gepflegt mit dem fleißigen zusammen.
Aber ihr, ihr Herrlichen! steht, wie ein Volk von Titanen
In der zahmeren Welt und gehört nur euch und dem Himmel,
Der euch nährt’ und erzog, und der Erde, die euch geboren."

"Out of the gardens I come to you, you sons of the mountain!
From the gardens where Nature lives patiently and domestically,
Nurturing and nurtured in turn, together with industrious mankind.
But you, you splendid beings, stand like a nation of Titans
In the tamer world, and belong only to yourselves and to the sky
That nourished you and raised you, and to the earth that bore you."
- Hölderlin

"Carl Schmitt is primarily interested in the political-legal background of events and persons - he traces this to poetry, to characters in the dramas of Schiller and Shakespeare. I, on the other hand, am concerned, however successfully, with the mythical core of history, which continues to have effects in the present – for example, with regard to technology and the modern titans, as well as the relationship between East and West.
This distinction did not affect our discussions; on the contrary, it often seemed to me as though Carl Schmitt brought the chessboard for our pieces. Sometimes he would set one aside – it was not easy for him to admit an error, but he paid its due tribute in logic."
- Ernst Jünger

"Carl Schmitt's response to the accusation that he was the gravedigger of the Weimar Republic is well known: "Where there is a gravedigger, there must have already been a corpse.""

"I eventually settled myself on individualist Anarchism with Post-Left characteristics (or something like that). I agreed with the anti-war and anti-Capitalist sentiments of Anarchism, and hatred of cops, bosses and politicians came very naturally to me. But, I never really went along with the identity politics, inherent in leftism in general these days, and I found the collectivism and authoritarianism of Communism to be distasteful."
- Futurism Forever