To Me The Mere Sight Of An Enemy In Tangible Form Was A Release. Grinding My Teeth, I Pressed The Muzzle

To me the mere sight of an enemy in tangible form was a release. Grinding my teeth, I pressed the muzzle to the temple of this wretch, whom terror now crippled, and with my other hand gripped hold of his tunic. With a beseeching cry he snatched a photograph from his pocket and held it before my eyes . . . himself, surrounded by a numerous family. ... I forced down my mad rage and walked past.

-Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel

Being means “synthesis” and the unity (of this synthesis). Non-being means non-synthesis and multiplicity. Specifically, this is the character of the being of those beings that always are what and how they are, the ἀδύνατα ἀλλώς ἔχειν— those which, by the very meaning of their being, cannot be otherwise. Martin Heidegger, Logic

Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ. Nature loves to hide. Heraclitus

To flash [blitzen], in terms both of its derivation and of what it designates, is “to glance” [blicken] . In the flashing glance and as that glance, the essence, the coming to presence, of Being enters into its own emitting of light. Moving through the element of its own shining, the flashing glance retrieves that which it catches sight of and brings it back into the brightness of its own looking. And yet that glancing, in its giving of light, simultaneously keeps safe the concealed darkness of its origin as the unlighted. The in-turning [Einkehr] that is the lightning flash of the truth of Being is the entering, flashing glance insight [Einblick] . We have thought the truth of Being in the worlding of world as the mirror play of the fourfold of sky and earth, mortals and divinities.  When oblivion turns about, when world as the safekeeping of the coming to presence of Being turns in, then there comes to pass the in-flashing [Einblitz] of world into the injurious neglect of the thing. That neglect comes to pass in the mode of the rule of Enframing. In-flashing of world into Enframing is in-flashing of the truth of Being into truthless Being. In-flashing is the disclosing coming-to-pass within Being itself. Disclosing coming-to-pass [Ereignis] is bringing to sight that brings into its own [eignende Eriiugnis] .

-Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology

Our ideal is an inner strength, a force of the soul, creating in the visible world its symbols and monuments, like how the soul of the Gothic man erects grandiose cathedrals and was elevated with them. He who dominates matter dominates himself - such is the perfect man. This is why the surprising aspiration for the limitless, that we saw in the example of imperialism, can have success only if it is replenished with spiritual depth. -Ernst Junger, Battle as Inner Experience

The common mortal, that manufacture of Nature which she produces by the thousand every day, is, as we have said, not capable, at least not continuously so, of observation that in every sense is wholly disinterested, as sensuous contemplation, strictly so called, is. He can turn his attention to things only so far as they have some relation to his will, however indirect it may be… The man of genius, on the other hand, whose excessive power of knowledge frees it at times from the service of will, dwells on the consideration of life itself, strives to comprehend the Idea of each thing, not its relations to other things; and in doing this he often forgets to consider his own path in life, and therefore for the most part pursues it awkwardly enough. While to the ordinary man his faculty of knowledge is a lamp to lighten his path, to the man of genius it is the sun which reveals the world… The man in whom genius lives and works is easily distinguished by his glance, which is both keen and steady, and bears the stamp of perception, of contemplation.

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation